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Thread #149861   Message #3488575
Posted By: Don Firth
10-Mar-13 - 12:38 AM
Thread Name: BS: Problems with Solar Energy
Subject: RE: BS: Problems with Solar Energy
Ye gods!!

Okay, Goofball, crawl back onto the microscope slide where you came from. I know ALL ABOUT the Bonneville Power Administration.

In this instance, the Department of Energy commissioned the Bonneville Power Administration, covering some 22 Public Utility Districts in the Pacific Northwest, to find new, cheap, non-pollutioning sources of power. At the end of a long survey, they were dragged, kicking and screaming, to the conclusion that the cheapest, most non-polluting source of untapped energy was--

--fasten your seat belt--

CONSERVATION!

I worked on several aspects of the program, but the part I did the most work on was the BPA's residential weatherization program, providing subsidies to Washington State residents to have their homes insulated and have double-paned windows and such installed.

If they're doing the right thing, I don't give a damn whether they are socialists, Mormons, or left-handed ukulele players!

And if "GUEST,Ignoramus Indeed" is NOT Goofball, then he, she, or it has to be a twin brother, sister, or paramecium.

Don Firth