Comments on: No Word On North Escambia Power Plant; Panhandle Solar Plant Announced

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:37:42 +0000

you could copy the good and not the bad

By: Willie B. Posted

Willie B. Posted — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:23:38 +0000

Yeah, Terri, that’s all we need,copy Spain.The last report I’ve read is that they have a 19% unemployment rate!

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:56:44 +0000

yep, some like the idea of change without considering what the change might be. It’s the same folks who say, “Vote out all incumbents, anybody’d have to be better.”

Not that he isn’t a wonderful man and a fine President, just that we may not always be so lucky.

Now if he or anyone else can solve our energy problems . . .

David for change
and cash

By: Considering

Considering — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:49:55 +0000

Limitless free pollution-free energy? I fear not in our lifetime, DHG. But one can hope for change. But wait, didn’t Obama promise that?

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:05:40 +0000

REGARDING:
“My fear is that this recession gets worse.”

Fear not. I have met folks who assure me the recession would have been a horrible depression but President Obama saved us from that and the recession will soon be a dim memory.

When I ask them how they know what would have happened, they assure me there are EXPERTS who KNOW these things.

Did they know beforehand?

No.

Were they experts then too?

Well, what’s different now?

Now they KNOW.

Its good to know people who know people who KNOW.

The rest of us try to plan ahead and allow for contingencies.

David for limitless free pollution-free energy
and whoever develops it

By: psu1earl

psu1earl — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:40:19 +0000

Aren’t they putting in gas collection system and gas power generator at the Beulah dump?

By: Terri Sanders

Terri Sanders — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:59:25 +0000

I wish the United States could follow Spain’s example with natural energy resources. I cannot tell you how many wind generators I saw in Spain,well over several hundred. We also saw fields with nothing but solar panels numbering in the hundreds. Yes it was inconveint to have the public lights inthe toilets go off after 2 minutes and yes it was aggravating to have the shower turn off after one minute and the temperature was preset,but it is about conservation.Something we in america need to get familiar with. Still hoping Gulf Power will buy my propery. It might be that Gulf Power will now gobble up water front property cheap and maybe out wind generators on the beach.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:07:05 +0000

REGARDING:
“Nuclear power is best used as for base power generation but requires large amounts of cooling water.”

A one gigawatt (thousand megawatt) electric generating plant operating at capacity would need to get rid of enough waste thermal energy to boil about 24 million gallons of water per day. That’s about an eighth of the lowest flow rate of the Escambia River. I can see why Gulf Power wants to use ECUA waste water for cooling. You could just save all rain water and meet a year’s demand with 8.2 sections of land based on average rainfall if you didn’t have any evaporation.

Dry air could be used for cooling but I don’t think it often is.

By: T

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:13:17 +0000

Every one and every company I know is hunkered down. Pay off debt. Too much uncertainty with the economy and now with changes in healthcare and taxes coming, businesses are afraid to hire or stick their necks out, My fear is that this recession gets worse.

By: Buddy

Buddy — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:25:30 +0000

I have a feeling that any company ,including Gulf Power, is going to take a wait and see attitude towards any large capitol investment in NW Florida until the outcome of the oil disaster is better known. Between the tax increases which are coming into play soon to support the recent medical welfare bill and the disaster in the gulf, this area may well experience a worsening economy for many years to come. Many small businesses are suffering and the large players are sitting on what ever capitol they have until all the ramifications are better understood. I pray that I am wrong, but I’m afraid this area is in for some real hard times.