From Lynas’s Q4 : what is the IPCC conflict of interest policy with regard to … having affiliations to non-academic institutions, whether campaign groups or companies?

Why exclude academic institutions? They too have vested interests, being as they are govenment-funded. Indeed government has by far the biggest vested interest of all, given the added taxes and bureaucracies it can justify on the basis of CAGW.

You will have to get pas the advertisement first.

“The 370-megawatt Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, they proclaimed, heralded a clean, green energy future.” ..and then the turtles came out of hibernation…

It illustrates the point that implementation of these ideas may have many unintended consequence due to ignorance of the land and the environmental issues. Labeling a project “green” does not make it so.

Chuckle! I don’t recall that was the issue.

I mean, if you have to build 3.8 million within 38 years, thats 100,000 per year. Won’t there be contentions for resources?

And if they only last 20 years (a WAG), you will have to build more than 100,000 per year when the old ones wear out.

Negotiating? What do you think “if backed by the right enabling public policies” means?

We’re not talking about a Judge Souter type action.

You seem to know nothing about the US power grid. Here is one image: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=110997398

The whole country is covered with transmission lines. How do you think they managed that? Only an idiot would require an engineering study to be convinced that transmission lines are possible. If you had clicked on the HVDC link, you would know that HVDC lines of the length that I’m talking about already exist all over the world. Once something has been built, you’ve got to drink a lot of kool-ade to not be convinced that it CAN BE BUILT.

Incorrect. How did you conclude that? Btw, Most of my comments are still awaiting moderation, including the 2nd half of that post. Expecting that private companies publish their engineering studies, and taking their lack of publication to mean that there are no studies is completely illogical.

Where is the engineering challenge? What is needed besides those 4 components, all of which exist?

Negotiating the land rights and transmissions corridors should be interesting. I would like to see that study…

http://www.windustry.org/how-much-do-wind-turbines-cost

Ok. 13 million max for 5MW. Onshore.

Do you have other references?

“The solar component calls for the use of industrial scale concentrating solar plants, the most cost efficient form of solar power. Abengoa Solar, a company currently constructing solar thermal plants, put the cost of a 300 MW plant at 1.2 billion euros in 2007. In 2009, the Arizona state government announced a 200 MW plant for 1 billion US dollars so let’s split the difference and estimate $1.56 billion per plant. Calculating the total cost for world solar power:

90,000 * $1,560,000,000 = $140 Trillion”

OUCH!