When "green energy" jobs fail...

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The Obama administration distributed $9 billion in economic “stimulus” funds to solar and wind projects in 2009-11 that created, as the end result, 910 “direct” jobs -- annual operation and maintenance positions -- meaning that it cost about $9.8 million to establish each of those long-term jobs.

At the same time, those green energy projects also created, in the end, about 4,600 “indirect” jobs – positions indirectly supported by the annual operation and maintenance jobs -- which means they cost about $1.9 million each ($9 billion divided by 4,600).

Combined (910 + 4,600 = 5,510), the direct and indirect jobs cost, on average, about $1.63 million each to produce.
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$9 Billion in

http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy12osti/52739.pdf

$1.6 million dollars just to create ONE job? How dumb.
 
TXgolfer said:
I wonder how many of those jobs still exist. I drove by Solyndra last week. Nobody was working there. :lol: All the lights were on though. Another company failed last week.
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Lights were on? Who is paying the electric bill?
 
If you're a native of CA, everyone knows the Solyndra offices are majorily backed up with powering by the solar panels on the rooftop. It's common knowledge..
 
naisho said:
If you're a native of CA, everyone knows the Solyndra offices are majorily backed up with powering by the solar panels on the rooftop. It's common knowledge..
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So, the building isn't empty?
 
naisho said:
If you're a native of CA, everyone knows the Solyndra offices are majorily backed up with powering by the solar panels on the rooftop. It's common knowledge..
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I doubt most California natives even know Solyndra exists...much less how it is powered.

Then there is this..

Solyndra's facilities could benefit a company that needs an utlra-clean environment such as makers of semiconductors or disc drives.

The building, located on 30 acres in the southeast section of the San Francisco Bay Area, comes with 31,000 square-feet, or two floors of office space.

The high-tech manufacturing facility was built to withstand an earthquake. It is serviced with 22 megawatts of power and backed up by two diesel emergency generators, each with 2 megawatt capacity. It also is equipped with Solyndra solar panels on the roof that can generate 1.2 megawatt of power.
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Former Solyndra plant and headquarters up for sale | MNN - Mother Nature Network

That doesn't fit my definition of "majorly" but it my fit the definition of others.

Doesn't matter really, we are just having a go. Most likely the real estate co is paying the bills.
 
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