[Vwdiesel] Fw: Power Generation --- ( electrical )

[James Hansen]

>
> I'll answer this one.
>
> In short, you don't.
>
> All power produced, no matter the source, is placed on the grid.
>
> When you sign up for "green" power, whatever amount of power that you
> use, the power utility must buy this power from the green power
> provider.


Which in this case is themselves.


>
> This system still works, because for every Kw placed into the grid from
> a green source, one less Kw is generated by conventional means -> less
> pollution in the long run.

 Yeah, they began collecting the revenue for green energy long before the
windmill field was in full operation too.  There must be a fourth
dimensional line filter as well...


>
> Now, I want to know, how your gov't gets away with paying you "nominal
> cost of generation" at .5 cents/Kw, and yet claim 6 cents on their end?


They don't get challenged on it other than by little insignificant folks
like myself that pay attention.
6 cents was touted by the head of Sask Power on a question and answer period
as their nom cost.
.5 was what I was told I would be paid, and what the nom cost is.
the 6 cent figure is probably delivered to your door cost.  I won't get into
why I pay a higher rate to subsidize my neighbor's rates because he decided
to go with electric heat, while I paid 15K to get natural gas into the
yard...

 I can make a mighty big noise when desired, but it still amounts to the
squeek of a small insectoid in the ointment in the big bureaucratic machine.
The get away with it because they are the revenue generating arm of the
socialist machine that is our provincial government.  The goal is to
generate revenue, electricity is secondary. But that's enough about
politics...

It is cheaper to charge batteries. However, the power mavens have rules
about that.  When I need to fire up a 7 hp grainery aeration fan, I need to
make big juice. It was still technically illegal to generate power without
being hooked to the grid last I knew. It was an old law that dates back to
the provincial trotskyite heyday of the 70's where the government or
"public" utilities were etched into stone, and law as the provincial revenue
source. Oh yeah, enough politics... sorry.

Telephone would be a good example- not until the feds mandated that there
should be competition did the opportunity to pay anything less than 70 cents
per minute for landline long distance to the sharp fanged "public" tax er...
utility.

  If it were feasible for me to get off the grid I would be there in spades.
Immediately.  No hesitation whatsoever, BUT between wide fluctuations in
demand on my end, and the government men, it isn't as easy as just throwing
the switch in Saskatchewan.
-James

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