On 24/11/2011 11:18, Andy Burns wrote:
Tim wrote:

A college plans to spend £300,000 on a solar array

Their own news article is up now, but doesn't fill any of the holes

http://www.jec.ac.uk/index.php/news/...or-jewel-a-esk


It speaks volumes about their scientific and engineering credibility
that the basic energy units error is replicated on their own site. It is
apparently not a result of clueless idiot journalists paraphrasing and
horribly mangling an originally correct press release.

They claim to have submitted planning application in early November, but
I can't see them on the list

https://planning-applications.midlothian.gov.uk/

I think it will be highly amusing to follow this one in detail.

I would love to see the ROI calculations that support this boondoggle!

Either they are being monumentally ripped off by their electricity
supplier or someone has put a decimal point in the wrong place.

Regards,
Martin Brown