NJ solar rebate program halts applications for now (BPU overwhelmed with applications)

[jpak]

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2010/05/11/business-financial-impact-us-nj-solar-power_7596829.html

TRENTON, N.J. -- After a surge in applications this month, a New Jersey program to give homeowners rebates for installing solar panels on their homes has stopped accepting new requests until September.

The state Board of Public Utilities' decision came Tuesday - eight days after more than 1,100 people submitted their applications to the program on the same day, some after camping out to do so.

For most of the past decade, New Jersey has offered some of the most generous incentives to persuade homes and businesses to use the sun's power to generate electricity.

By 2007, the state trailed only California in the number of homes using the technology.

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science illiterate cretins!

:D

[NYC_SKP]

1. Well that can't possibly be. Solar will never ever work and the modules put out 600 Volts!!11!!

I know, shame on me.

Modules are typically low voltage 12, 24, 48 volts, run together in parallel or series, or combination, to inverters, then stepped up to higher AC voltage current.

I was surprised to learn only recently that NJ was number two among the states in grid tied PV.

Good for them.

:thumbsup:

[NNadir]

2. In 2007 New Jersey trailed only California in sutpid toxic solar PV systems.

I guess that's a fair indication why one seldom sees any of the toxic ponzi scheme subsidized roofs in either state.

The population of New Jersey is almost 9 million.

It's hardly a surprise to hear a Ponzi schemer from the dangerous fossil fuel cults thinking that 1,100 means something in New Jersey.

Have a nice oblivious to reality evening.

[jpak]

3. Have a nice tritiated water dead sea turtle oyster creek day

:hi:

[NNadir]

4. What tritium are you talking about? Do you know what the units for tritium concentration are?

No clue?

Have a nice anti-science paranoid day?

[jpak]

5. tritium leaking into NJ aquifers from Oyster Creek nuclear plant

and endangered sea turtles killed by the same nuclear plant

surely you've heard the news?

:D

[NNadir]

6. Actually, anyone who knows any science knows that tritium concentrations are measurable.

I don't hear any news out of anti-nukes. Most of them hate the science they know nothing about, nuclear science.

It's why they think they can get away with making wholly illiterate statements.

Tritium concentrations are measurable and well understood, and have been falling continuously since 1963.

A literate statement about putative effects of tritium would necessarily include units like Beq, or Ci or Gray or Sv.

Actually I know all about this topic, and I didn't get it from drunks spreading google rumors on the internet in hopes of finding that everyone is as dumb as they are.

Almost of the talk from Amory Lovins' pals, fossil fuel apologists - who couldn't give a rat's ass about all the dead animals that their buddies in BP killed this week in the Gulf they destroyed via appeals to ignorance - about tritium is a red herring designed to distract attention from their paymasters in the oil sands, oil drilling, coal and dangerous natural gas industry.

http://www.rmi.org/rmi/Amory+B.+Lovins">Famous Anti-nuke Amory Lovins describes his revenue sources:

Mr. Lovins’s other clients have included Accenture, Allstate, AMD, Anglo American, Anheuser-Busch, Bank of America, Baxter, Borg-Warner, BP, HP Bulmer, Carrier, Chevron, Ciba-Geigy, CLSA, ConocoPhillips, Corning, Dow, Equitable, GM, HP, Invensys, Lockheed Martin, Mitsubishi, Monsanto, Motorola, Norsk Hydro, Petrobras, Prudential, Rio Tinto, Royal Dutch/Shell, Shearson Lehman Amex, STMicroelectronics, Sun Oil, Suncor, Texas Instruments, UBS, Unilever, Westinghouse, Xerox, major developers, and over 100 energy utilities. His public-sector clients have included the OECD, the UN, and RFF; the Australian, Canadian, Dutch, German, and Italian governments; 13 states; Congress, and the U.S. Energy and Defense Departments

Have a nice "isn't BP solar great" kind of dangerous fossil fuel evening. Try not to drink so much of the ethanol that there's none left to fuel the SUV.

[jpak]

7. ummm...I've worked with tritium for 30+ years

The new vial labels are in Bq (not "Beq" BTW :rofl:)- but I always calculate in microcuries

old school

but I digress

and our NRC license is in millicuries - and we have never had to write any reports using Gy or Sv - that would mean someone ingested a lot of the stuff

:rofl:

[Nihil]

8. Ummm ... disconnect?

If you have indeed

"worked with tritium for 30+ years"

and

"always calculate in microcuries"

and acknowledge that

"our NRC license is in millicuries"

and that

"we have never had to write any reports using Gy or Sv - that would mean someone ingested a lot of the stuff"

then why the living fuck are you making such a goddamn fuss about the
by your own terms trivial amounts of tritium being
talked about at Oyster Creek?

Either you have failed to understand something that you have been
working with "for 30+ years" or you are just blatantly panic-mongering
over shit.

So, which is it Jpak?