Via Memeorandum, the Los Angeles Times details a tale of clean energy stupidity in the Los Angeles Community College District that has to be read to be believed. This is the kind of waste and idiocy that will bankrupt our governments and drive our economy right into the ground.
This looks like the heart of the matter:
One thing was for sure: No matter how it was financed, the bill for all those solar panels and wind turbines would be huge. Eisenberg's cost estimates for taking the nine campuses off the grid ranged as high as $975 million — this for a college system that in 2010 spent less than $8 million on power bills.
Another consultant put the cost at $1.9 billion. Even at the lower cost the project is clearly insane. President Obama and friends talk about "green jobs" all of the time. I would like to know how many of those jobs are based on executing ridiculous projects like the one shown here. Kudos to the LA Times for this investigation, but what we really need is for them to take it to the next level.
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