Taxpayers would foot the bill of course.

What's next!?!? Umbrellas and slickers for citizens of Las Vegas?

1/12/2009 6:36:17 PM

Yeah, doesn't it rain most of the year there? Maybe they can store up the energy for a long time or something.

1/12/2009 6:57:35 PM

^ No. No they cannot.

1/12/2009 7:01:36 PM

Link plz

1/12/2009 7:07:19 PM

Seattle is the worst place in the country to do this, speaking both anecdotally (having lived in the area) and having seen data on the subject.

1/12/2009 7:14:45 PM

solar is the worst way to go

if they want carbon-less emissions, just install a nuclear plant

it will be a hell of a lot more economical

1/12/2009 7:18:58 PM

And would go well with their monorail.

1/12/2009 7:32:12 PM

Where did you see this?

I know WASHINGTON has several initiatives to install solar, but they are for the Eastern part of the state which is sunny and dry most of the year.

1/12/2009 7:35:50 PM

That is what happens when u get a bunch of liberal hippy green idealist like joe_schmoe all cramed into one place.

This would be like giving everybody in Fairbanks Alaska a bicycle to decrease oil consumption. No matter that 7 months out of the year the roads are frozen and its extreme cold

1/12/2009 8:17:43 PM

This is all I could find

http://www.seattle.gov/mayor/newsdetail.asp?ID=8317&dept=40

Comparing to Germany and their waste of a solar install is a bad place to start. This has dumb shinning all over it.

1/12/2009 8:37:53 PM

1/12/2009 11:09:34 PM

It would have been smarter for them to fund initiatives to find materials more efficient than silicon.

1/12/2009 11:38:22 PM