Comments on: US Army Wants to Build World's Most Powerful Solar Array http://cleantechnica.com/2008/10/07/army-wants-to-build-worlds-most-powerful-solar-array/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Fri, 25 May 2012 18:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Uncle B http://cleantechnica.com/2008/10/07/army-wants-to-build-worlds-most-powerful-solar-array/#comment-3527 Uncle B Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:10:51 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=1250#comment-3527 Is this the same U.S. Army that promised America the conquest of Iraq in a year? Same guys mired in Afghanistan? Sorry folks but you will never see practical cost efficient Solar from these bungling assholes, not in decades of huge money allotments! They do things in such a manner - so "Cost-Plus" as to fail every fvcking mission they touch! These assholes require $6000.00 "fire-ignitors" to light a goddammit campfire where a match and some Boy Scout know-how would do! They spend $400.00 a gallon for fuel in Afghanistan running half-tracks just to prove they can! They are the biggest farce the world has ever seen backed down by untrained turban topped illiterates every time they fire a shot! The proof is in the pudding! Watch these assholes louse up Afghanistan and leave a worse mess than when they came, if they don't make a career out of it and stay forever, at our expense, canteens flowing with beer, free food and medals, pensions, for all! These assholes lost in Vietnam - tell the truth! Our flag does not fly there! They screwed up in Iraq and we still have to beg at world prices for oil we conquered for $650 Billions of our Dollars placed in their pockets – cheaper to buy it in the first place! Assholes! and they will occupy Afghanistan until their sons and daughters get medals and pensions, medals from that "engagement" - more like a "marriage of convenience" if you ask me! Brace yourselves America! Grease up your own tender spots before you salute that flag! This costs big money! Generals need futures too! They call soldiering "Careers in the Army" now, and they mean to keep it that way, goddammit! Don't hardly blame em, no such job security states-side is there? Solar development at Army costs! I call Bull Shiite! more like government hand-out to sustain current staff to a comfortable retirement! Is this the same U.S. Army that promised America the conquest of Iraq in a year? Same guys mired in Afghanistan? Sorry folks but you will never see practical cost efficient Solar from these bungling assholes, not in decades of huge money allotments! They do things in such a manner – so “Cost-Plus” as to fail every fvcking mission they touch! These assholes require $6000.00 “fire-ignitors” to light a goddammit campfire where a match and some Boy Scout know-how would do! They spend $400.00 a gallon for fuel in Afghanistan running half-tracks just to prove they can! They are the biggest farce the world has ever seen backed down by untrained turban topped illiterates every time they fire a shot! The proof is in the pudding! Watch these assholes louse up Afghanistan and leave a worse mess than when they came, if they don’t make a career out of it and stay forever, at our expense, canteens flowing with beer, free food and medals, pensions, for all! These assholes lost in Vietnam – tell the truth! Our flag does not fly there! They screwed up in Iraq and we still have to beg at world prices for oil we conquered for $650 Billions of our Dollars placed in their pockets – cheaper to buy it in the first place! Assholes! and they will occupy Afghanistan until their sons and daughters get medals and pensions, medals from that “engagement” – more like a “marriage of convenience” if you ask me! Brace yourselves America! Grease up your own tender spots before you salute that flag! This costs big money! Generals need futures too! They call soldiering “Careers in the Army” now, and they mean to keep it that way, goddammit! Don’t hardly blame em, no such job security states-side is there? Solar development at Army costs! I call Bull Shiite! more like government hand-out to sustain current staff to a comfortable retirement!

]]> By: Uncle B http://cleantechnica.com/2008/10/07/army-wants-to-build-worlds-most-powerful-solar-array/#comment-20185 Uncle B Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:10:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=1250#comment-20185 Is this the same U.S. Army that promised America the conquest of Iraq in a year? Same guys mired in Afghanistan? Sorry folks but you will never see practical cost efficient Solar from these bungling assholes, not in decades of huge money allotments! They do things in such a manner - so "Cost-Plus" as to fail every fvcking mission they touch! These assholes require $6000.00 "fire-ignitors" to light a goddammit campfire where a match and some Boy Scout know-how would do! They spend $400.00 a gallon for fuel in Afghanistan running half-tracks just to prove they can! They are the biggest farce the world has ever seen backed down by untrained turban topped illiterates every time they fire a shot! The proof is in the pudding! Watch these assholes louse up Afghanistan and leave a worse mess than when they came, if they don't make a career out of it and stay forever, at our expense, canteens flowing with beer, free food and medals, pensions, for all! These assholes lost in Vietnam - tell the truth! Our flag does not fly there! They screwed up in Iraq and we still have to beg at world prices for oil we conquered for $650 Billions of our Dollars placed in their pockets – cheaper to buy it in the first place! Assholes! and they will occupy Afghanistan until their sons and daughters get medals and pensions, medals from that "engagement" - more like a "marriage of convenience" if you ask me! Brace yourselves America! Grease up your own tender spots before you salute that flag! This costs big money! Generals need futures too! They call soldiering "Careers in the Army" now, and they mean to keep it that way, goddammit! Don't hardly blame em, no such job security states-side is there? Solar development at Army costs! I call Bull Shiite! more like government hand-out to sustain current staff to a comfortable retirement! Is this the same U.S. Army that promised America the conquest of Iraq in a year? Same guys mired in Afghanistan? Sorry folks but you will never see practical cost efficient Solar from these bungling assholes, not in decades of huge money allotments! They do things in such a manner – so “Cost-Plus” as to fail every fvcking mission they touch! These assholes require $6000.00 “fire-ignitors” to light a goddammit campfire where a match and some Boy Scout know-how would do! They spend $400.00 a gallon for fuel in Afghanistan running half-tracks just to prove they can! They are the biggest farce the world has ever seen backed down by untrained turban topped illiterates every time they fire a shot! The proof is in the pudding! Watch these assholes louse up Afghanistan and leave a worse mess than when they came, if they don’t make a career out of it and stay forever, at our expense, canteens flowing with beer, free food and medals, pensions, for all! These assholes lost in Vietnam – tell the truth! Our flag does not fly there! They screwed up in Iraq and we still have to beg at world prices for oil we conquered for $650 Billions of our Dollars placed in their pockets – cheaper to buy it in the first place! Assholes! and they will occupy Afghanistan until their sons and daughters get medals and pensions, medals from that “engagement” – more like a “marriage of convenience” if you ask me! Brace yourselves America! Grease up your own tender spots before you salute that flag! This costs big money! Generals need futures too! They call soldiering “Careers in the Army” now, and they mean to keep it that way, goddammit! Don’t hardly blame em, no such job security states-side is there? Solar development at Army costs! I call Bull Shiite! more like government hand-out to sustain current staff to a comfortable retirement!

]]> By: russ http://cleantechnica.com/2008/10/07/army-wants-to-build-worlds-most-powerful-solar-array/#comment-3526 russ Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:35:31 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=1250#comment-3526 Don't forget - the key phrase the writer wanted to get out was, "Unfortunately, the press release does not specify a time frame for the project. We’re left to wonder if the array is an empty promise meant to quell concerns about the Army’s massive energy consumption." Accuracy or anything else had nothing to do with the article - only the dig. Don’t forget – the key phrase the writer wanted to get out was,

“Unfortunately, the press release does not specify a time frame for the project. We’re left to wonder if the array is an empty promise meant to quell concerns about the Army’s massive energy consumption.”

Accuracy or anything else had nothing to do with the article – only the dig.

]]> By: russ http://cleantechnica.com/2008/10/07/army-wants-to-build-worlds-most-powerful-solar-array/#comment-20184 russ Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:35:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=1250#comment-20184 Don't forget - the key phrase the writer wanted to get out was, "Unfortunately, the press release does not specify a time frame for the project. We’re left to wonder if the array is an empty promise meant to quell concerns about the Army’s massive energy consumption." Accuracy or anything else had nothing to do with the article - only the dig. Don’t forget – the key phrase the writer wanted to get out was,

“Unfortunately, the press release does not specify a time frame for the project. We’re left to wonder if the array is an empty promise meant to quell concerns about the Army’s massive energy consumption.”

Accuracy or anything else had nothing to do with the article – only the dig.

]]> By: Josh Monroe http://cleantechnica.com/2008/10/07/army-wants-to-build-worlds-most-powerful-solar-array/#comment-3525 Josh Monroe Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:55:25 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=1250#comment-3525 Todd, I am glad that you pointed that out. I was just about to do that. Solar PV may work great if you are looking to put something on your roof and generate some electricity. However, Solar Thermal methods are much cheaper to build and are actually viable for large-scale, centrally generated power generation. Todd, I am glad that you pointed that out. I was just about to do that.

Solar PV may work great if you are looking to put something on your roof and generate some electricity. However, Solar Thermal methods are much cheaper to build and are actually viable for large-scale, centrally generated power generation.

]]> By: Josh Monroe http://cleantechnica.com/2008/10/07/army-wants-to-build-worlds-most-powerful-solar-array/#comment-20182 Josh Monroe Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:55:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=1250#comment-20182 Todd, I am glad that you pointed that out. I was just about to do that. Solar PV may work great if you are looking to put something on your roof and generate some electricity. However, Solar Thermal methods are much cheaper to build and are actually viable for large-scale, centrally generated power generation. Todd, I am glad that you pointed that out. I was just about to do that.

Solar PV may work great if you are looking to put something on your roof and generate some electricity. However, Solar Thermal methods are much cheaper to build and are actually viable for large-scale, centrally generated power generation.

]]> By: Josh Monroe http://cleantechnica.com/2008/10/07/army-wants-to-build-worlds-most-powerful-solar-array/#comment-20183 Josh Monroe Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:55:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=1250#comment-20183 Todd, I am glad that you pointed that out. I was just about to do that. Solar PV may work great if you are looking to put something on your roof and generate some electricity. However, Solar Thermal methods are much cheaper to build and are actually viable for large-scale, centrally generated power generation. Todd, I am glad that you pointed that out. I was just about to do that.

Solar PV may work great if you are looking to put something on your roof and generate some electricity. However, Solar Thermal methods are much cheaper to build and are actually viable for large-scale, centrally generated power generation.

]]> By: Todd McKissick http://cleantechnica.com/2008/10/07/army-wants-to-build-worlds-most-powerful-solar-array/#comment-3524 Todd McKissick Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:36:03 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=1250#comment-3524 "Yesterday, the Army announced that it plans to construct a 500 MW solar thermal plant in the Mojave Desert at Fort Irwin. " Why show a picture of solar PV? Why not show a picture of a banana plantation? That has the same relevance to solar thermal since it turns sunlight into 'energy'. It's about time the press started digging deeper into these issues and learn the vast differences between these two technologies. ...Like how only one is viable and economic for a project of this size. “Yesterday, the Army announced that it plans to construct a 500 MW solar thermal plant in the Mojave Desert at Fort Irwin. ”

Why show a picture of solar PV? Why not show a picture of a banana plantation? That has the same relevance to solar thermal since it turns sunlight into ‘energy’. It’s about time the press started digging deeper into these issues and learn the vast differences between these two technologies. …Like how only one is viable and economic for a project of this size.

]]> By: Todd McKissick http://cleantechnica.com/2008/10/07/army-wants-to-build-worlds-most-powerful-solar-array/#comment-20181 Todd McKissick Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:36:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=1250#comment-20181 "Yesterday, the Army announced that it plans to construct a 500 MW solar thermal plant in the Mojave Desert at Fort Irwin. " Why show a picture of solar PV? Why not show a picture of a banana plantation? That has the same relevance to solar thermal since it turns sunlight into 'energy'. It's about time the press started digging deeper into these issues and learn the vast differences between these two technologies. ...Like how only one is viable and economic for a project of this size. “Yesterday, the Army announced that it plans to construct a 500 MW solar thermal plant in the Mojave Desert at Fort Irwin. ”

Why show a picture of solar PV? Why not show a picture of a banana plantation? That has the same relevance to solar thermal since it turns sunlight into ‘energy’. It’s about time the press started digging deeper into these issues and learn the vast differences between these two technologies. …Like how only one is viable and economic for a project of this size.

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