Port of Sacramento Now Operating on Solar Power

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The Port of West Sacramento today unveiled a newly installed solar power system that will provide all of its electricity needs over the next 25 years. Installed at no cost to the Port by Pacific Power Management (PPM) of Auburn, Calif., the 637? kilowatt system will reduce the Port?fs energy costs by more than $20,000 annually.

The system includes 3,536 solar panels covering 90,000 square feet on the rooftops of two rice warehouse buildings.

"This is another important step in our move toward operating the Port in an environmentally responsible way. With the annual cost savings, it also makes good business sense,?" said Mike McGowan, chairman of the Sacramento? Yolo Port District Commission.

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A little here a little there and before long that little turns into big. If St. Ronnie the Gipper hadn't dismantled everything, path included, that President Carter had us on starting back in early '81 we would not be in quite the fix we're on today.

Carter was opposed in everything he tried to do, even by Democrats. Reagan was largely unconcerned with energy; he preferred to destroy people directly. Fossil fuel prices fell dramatically after the second OPEC boycott. The venture capital for everything non-oil and non-coal just dried up and blew away.

Yep, even The Devil's Lightning.

If super-cheap natural gas from deep shale deposits comes onto the market, there will be another major shake-out. Ironic, since the last one shook out the expected 1980s natural gas boom.

The anti-Carter mood was so intense, even Metric became an "unamerican" measurement system, that's how trivial things became. As I remember it, it was a serious culture war, but the conservatives thought Reagan didn't go far enough.

--d!

at least where I lived. There seemed to be a push to finally go metric back then. Then it died.

Darn, you made me go looking for history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_States

Yes, Reagan killed it.

completed with the supremes 5-4 ruling in dec. 2000

Sooner we all figure that out the better we'll be.