Larry Jaques wrote:
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Cool. Sure beats the massive and expensive-to-run natural-gas
installations ...
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builders must break ground by the end of the year to take advantage of
federal stimulus funds."
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Gives away the underlying problem -- it wouldn't be being done at all
w/o the stimulus and the other incentives.

NG, while a sorry choice for many reasons the primary being that it's
too valuable/useful for other purposes than central station generation,
has the distinct advantage (along w/ other conventional generation
technologies) of being both relatively inexpensive _and_ reliable,
neither of which is the above.

And speaking of "massive"; footprint is invisible in comparison to on a
per MW basis.

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