Santo Domingo.–
The Dominican government has further demonstrated its commitment to
sustainable development by signing an agreement with U.S. firm Sunovia
Energy Technologies for the installation of the country's first solar
energy plant.
The
contract, signed within the scope of a Dominican law providing
incentives for foreign investment, will involve an investment of
roughly $200 million and provide jobs to some 2,500 workers.
"President
(Leonel) Fernandez and his team have shown a tremendous passion for
solving the country's energy difficulties; they've realized that having
a bilateral focus, including the responsible production of renewable
energy, (and adopting) practices that conserve energy are critical
steps that must be taken if the country is to achieve energy
independence in the long term," Sunovia Energy Technologies CEO Carl
Smith said.
For
his part, Eddy Martinez, secretary of state and executive director of
the Dominican Republic's Export and Investment Center, said the
agreement "is the result of the intense work we've carried out for
years, in keeping with the worldwide trend of reducing dependence on
crude and, at the same time, creating new jobs and attracting new
investment to the (country)."
The
contract signed with Sunovia Energy Technologies is part of a wave of
new investment in renewable energy in the Dominican Republic that also
involves other U.S. companies such as Masada Resource Group, STC
Engineering and Burbano Recycling, which have set up electricity and
bio-fuels plants.
Martinez
said, meanwhile, that his country not only wants to attract investors
in renewable energy, but also to expand investment in the stem-cell
research and genetically modified foods sectors and in the development
of hybrid vehicles.
Written by: anthonyC, 31 Jan 2009 4:26 PM
From: United States
I love that term "renewable energy"
I guess these idiots never took 3rd grade science.
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
where is the wanker ?
Written by: Edward, 31 Jan 2009 5:25 PM
From: United States, Faux News: Unfair Imbalance
Here I am!
From: United States, Richmond, Texas
He'll be there as soon as he can hook his electricity back to his "rancho".
From: United States
Nonrenewable energy sources come out of the ground as liquids, gases and solids. Right now, crude oil (petroleum) is the only naturally liquid commercial fossil fuel. Natural gas and propane are normally gases, and coal is a solid. Coal, petroleum, natural gas, and propane are all considered fossil fuels because they formed from the buried remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago. Uranium ore, a solid, is mined and converted to a fuel. Uranium is not a fossil fuel. These energy sources are considered nonrenewable because they can not be replenished (made again) in a short period of time. Renewable energy sources can be replenished naturally in a short period of time.
From: United States
i copied and pasted this article, just so i can get some entertaining rejoinder from our favorite stand up comic (the article above)
From: United States, Richmond, Texas
Dread,
To further your explanation, Propane and butane are actually by products of the refining of crude and natural gass.( if you ever go by a refinery and see round spherical tanks they contain propane and butane) Natural gas is the only one that can be drilled for and have it come out of the ground. When it is produced it has zero smell and during the scrubbing process to remove condensates an additive is well added to give it its distinct smell.
Written by: anthonyC, 31 Jan 2009 8:55 PM
From: United States
WOW! All those explanations and yet nobody has mentioned the....
1st LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS:
Energy can be changed from one form to another, but it cannot be created or destroyed.
So if energy cannot be created or destroyed how the hell can it be RENEWED?????
Written by: OndeVert 
, 31 Jan 2009 9:57 PM
From: United States
Energy can not be made (it can be transform from one type to another) not even solar since the sun has another 4 billion years left before it runs out of H2 and He fuel and die!! In addition, hydrothermal energy has a limited time since the hot magma (molten ceramic) in the interior of Earth will also cool down after the decay radiation from U, K and Th dies down!!!! Therefore, all sources of wind, oceanic, solar, hydrothermal, magnetic, electrical, and chemical will expire on this Earth! Quickly? That depends on demand and that can be curtailed by constraining population growth and lowering the energy + raw material consumption fingerprint of each individual
Written by: OndeVert , 31 Jan 2009 10:19 PM
From: United States
Anthony you are right about the 1st law but explain where did the energy come from that lead to the big ban? And when U-235 atoms are put togheter (with very little energy), lots of energy is given off (=mC^2) compared to the one needed to put the U-235 atoms together (just think of the energy needed to split the atom with neutrons versus alpha particles!). What about sub-atomic particles? When the collider spends lots of energy to smash proton together to get subatomic (quarks), how come they don't get the equivalent energy out in the collision?
Finally, two lasers (several watts/mm^2) of the same wavelength and one is phase shifted 180 degrees from the other and are combined and they destructively interfere (according to physics)into nothing (no heat, no sound, etc.), where has the original energy of the two starting lasers gone to? Explain. The 1st law appears to have failed!
Written by: Trujillo, 31 Jan 2009 10:48 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Just call it alternative energy sources. sigh..
Written by: derek, 1 Feb 2009 7:37 AM
From: Dominican Republic
As I've said before, why have the thousands of acres of cane around Imbert and Puerto Plata not been harvested in 2+ years? Easy renewable energy, ... or more rum!! Its a crying shame to see all that cane and/or land wasted.
Thanks for the physics lesson, but Ondervert , you are wrong about solar and windpower. One study I read, stated it was possible to produce 10 times the total energy consumed around the globe , from windpower alone
Written by: josean, 1 Feb 2009 10:29 AM
From: United States
From: United States
AnthonyC you are really embarrassing yourself with your ignorance. Can you only read and paste or do you actually understand? Rewable does not mean created and you keep typing the answer in your question. "Energy can be changed from one form to another" that is how. In other words, we have so much energy that exists naturally, but we are using up the types of energy that we consume and it burns away hurting the atmosphere. OndeVert explains this to you but seems to be sounding the alarm saying that even those types of energy will be gone one day, saying that the sun only has 4 billion years left to burn.
From: United States
Are you worried about 4 billion years from now? Solar and wind are two forms of energy that are in abundance and not used every day and I guarantee you tomorrow and for the rest of our lives and our childrens lives there will be sun and wind. You can take the literal laws of thermodynamics far too literally or you can incorporate an ounce of common sense instead of finding a way to be so cynical and dispute that finding alternative ways to use energy is a wise way to spend our time and money.
From: United States
ianmac, anthonyc embarrassing himself with his ignorance is not a new phenomenon. it is his favorite pastime. he is a snippets type of guy, who reads articles he cannot understand, then pontificates erroneously on the subject matter which has escaped his vestigial powers of understanding. nobody says that the energy is renewable; it is the SOURCE of the energy. so, anthony, when petroleum, a source of energy, is removed from the earth, it is not renewable in the short run. but when solar energy is harnessed today, as a SOURCE of energy, we can go back and do it tomorrow, in perpetuity, or at least until the sun burns out. holy moses; this guy must be twins, as no single human can be so daft.
Written by: josean, 1 Feb 2009 1:24 PM
From: United States
There is a rumor that anthony c is the love child of Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter ( VIAGARA and OXYCONTIN aided of course), if a DNA test bears this out we can then understand his mental deficiency!
From: United States
dreadlokcs, well said.
From: United States
ianmac, thank you, sir,
Written by: OndeVert , 1 Feb 2009 1:35 PM
From: United States
Janmac NO ONE IS SAYING DON'T CONVERT WIND, SOLAR, HEAT, SOUND, RADIOACTIVITY, ETC INTO ELECTRICITY! What it is being debated the appropriateness of the word "renewable" to define mining other energy sources that have finite lifetime or inventory! Trujillo is right in saying "alternative energies." Petroleum has very limited inventory but Earth has a very large H2 inventory (and so does the sun!)!
From: United States
Ondevert, I would disagree...to me an energy that we might not be able to renew in 4 billion years is renewable. And you have missed the point with anthonyC. Its a sad day when people think that we should spend more time debating whether the word renewable or alternative energy is more appropriate instead of spending time on finding solutions. OndeVert, you send me a message telling me what we are debating and what is being debated? Wrong. I'm not, I think we should spend our time finding solutions and I applaud the Dominican Republic, Ondevert, you can spend your time with AnthonyC feeling good about yourself because you debated two words, renewable and alternative.
Written by: anthonyC, 1 Feb 2009 2:38 PM
From: United States
How do you know if a Liberal is Outraged.
That is easy
Show them how they are wrong.
From: United States
anthonyC, I am probably more conservative than you, I am just not as stupid.
Written by: josean, 1 Feb 2009 3:25 PM
From: United States
Cubanito and uppercut! Get up off the canvas 1. 2. 3. 4.!
From: United States
touche. ianmac. it would be the heights of arrogance to believe that you could be as ignorant as anthonyc, the undisputed champion of stupidity.
Written by: anthonyC, 1 Feb 2009 4:42 PM
From: United States
Wow.
Question a liberal's beliefs and they lash back with personal insults.
I am shocked!
From: United States
there is a difference between beliefs and science. people once believed the earth was flat. science proved otherwise. so, keep on believing. we will resort to knowledge.
Written by: abc200, 1 Feb 2009 7:57 PM
From: United Kingdom
With lasers you get an interference pattern with photons produced of multiples of frequency and same frequency and going away from the interence region at different angles from the collisions of individyual photons. Energy is conserved but entropy is less. A new star can also formed from material of collapsed star. This mattter tends aggegate and is attracted to other pools of matter.
S.
From: United States
yes, ABC.
Written by: abc200, 1 Feb 2009 8:03 PM
From: United Kingdom
It seems that some people missed out on writing science essays at school.
S.
Written by: abc200, 2 Feb 2009 5:31 PM
From: United Kingdom
DR needs some of these! A scalable solution so investment in transmission lines not needed - existing hydro can be converted to pumped storage. Or maybe existing gas plants run only at night!
S.
Written by: abc200, 2 Feb 2009 6:50 PM
From: United Kingdom
Written by: anthonyC, 2 Feb 2009 7:00 PM
From: United States
California is bankrupt from ridiculous Gove. spending and they continue to waste money on that boondogle.
Written by: Juango, 2 Feb 2009 10:27 PM
From: United States, far S. Florida (formerly Santo Domingo)
Is this investment in PV module production or a generating station/plant? Sounds to me like Sunovia will build/assemble PV panels in a plant here on the Island. There is no way 2500 people can be employed in a generating station(s). There is nothing to do at a solar array. There is no way $200 MM will build enough solar capacity (at current PV module technology cost) to make a significant impact on the DR national grid. I wish them well. Sunovia website does not highlight any generation sites they have built. We shall see where this one goes. Sounds much like the biomass generations that LF announced to be built a few days ago..
From: United States
don't you just love it when a guy writes about something he obviously knows something about? great stuff, Juango. anthonyc, are you taking notes on how it should be done?
Written by: lovingit, 3 Feb 2009 1:45 PM
From: United States, Delaware
"commitment", "commitment", "commitment"
Actions, lets see some actions.. I am tired of hearing about these "commitments"
Written by: anthonyC, 3 Feb 2009 1:58 PM
From: United States
Dready,
Still waiting for an answer to my question. Until then your insults will go unanswered.
From: United States
you asked a question? what was it? i cannot wait to reply.
Written by: anthonyC, 3 Feb 2009 7:20 PM
From: United States
Explain to me the morality of taxing people a higher % just because they make more money?
People who make more money generally pay more sales tax. They usually pay more user fees(Taxes). They fuel the economy.
This should be good.
From: United States
i was confused, but you have saved me, anthonyc. thanks for telling me that people who make more money "generally" pay more sales tax. i thought that everybody paid the same tax on consumption. so, do i take it to mean that some people pay 1.08 for a loaf of bread, with 8% on the dollar, while others pay, say, 1.15? you keep on saying that people insult you, but you are your worst enemy. it is not people on this board that cause you to make the kinds of statements that elicit ridicule. it is because you are ignorant, and refuse to see it. you insist on making silly remarks, without understanding the subject matter. go GOOGLE "tax incidence", and read.
Written by: anthonyC, 3 Feb 2009 8:37 PM
From: United States
Dread,
You are pathetic.
YES people who make more money generally pay more in sales tax because they BUY MORE STUFF!!!!
I didn't say they pay a higher sales tax.
SO ANSWER MY QUESTION OR SLINK BACK YOUR YOUR GOVERNMENT SUPPLIED CUBICLE!!!!
Written by: abc200, 3 Feb 2009 11:39 PM
From: United Kingdom
Rich people don't pay any sales tax. They generally have their residence in a tax haven and use their Swiss credit/debit card to buy their yacht and provisions in ports where there is not the inconvenience of sales tax. Other forms of tax, such as on income from investements is avoided using trust funds. Sometimes aC I think you are stupid! Genereally also they take contracts where the money is paid in third country avoiding fed and state income tax.
S.
Written by: anthonyC, 3 Feb 2009 11:50 PM
From: United States
"Written by: abc200, 3 Feb 2009 11:39 PM
From: United Kingdom
Rich people don't pay any sales tax."
Are you really that dense? Get a clue.
Every time I buy a coke I pay sales tax. Gasoline. clothes, Movies, Shows, restaurants, electricity, phone......Only thing I don't pay sales tax are on basic foodstuff and medicines.
I pay tax to drive. I pay tax to fly. I pay tax to fish. i pay tax to hunt.
Written by: abc200, 4 Feb 2009 12:24 AM
From: United Kingdom
Maybe you are not rich. The provisions lighter comes to friends a yacht loaded with goods of all sorts - all tax free. Sometimes they order from the USA for delivery in the USA for trans shipment. Of course in the states where the trans-shipment occurs e.g. Florida - there is no sales tax on private deliveries from other states. There are countires also where there is no or little property tax. Often they eat in private closed clubs - here there may be no charge for exquisite cusine - but a certain investment is required for this privilidge - hence no sales tax. Membership may be part of a compensation package. There again when the rich go hunting they do so on an estate they have inherited or partly own through an offshore trust there is no sals tax.
S.
Written by: anthonyC, 4 Feb 2009 12:43 AM
From: United States
right.
I am going to order a coke from another state.
Every purchase I make will be made on-line!
I am going to buy my gas from another state. Pay tolls. Licenses (driving, fishing, hunting..ect)
What about restaurants? Hotels?
What a S.F.B.
From: United States
sometimes you think anthonyc is stupid, ABC? what kind of remark is that to make? anthonyc IS stupid. and uneducated. and impervious to education. i am embarrassed to know that a grown man can write the rubbish he did above, and not be ashamed. he refuses to understand that taxation is not pondered in absolute numerical terms, but the incidence of taxation upon income groups. the troglodyte does not notice that when a very wealthy person pays the same amount of sales tax on an item, the incidence is more onerous upon the poorer person, even if the amount is the same. a child of 7 years can understand that concept. maybe, if and when anthony attains the intellectual level of a 7 year old, he too will grasp the idea. anthony, i suggested you GOOGLE, or something like wikipedia, the concept of incidence of taxation. if and when it ever sinks in, we can discuss this further. at this juncture, it is a fool's errand.
Written by: abc200, 4 Feb 2009 7:53 AM
From: United Kingdom
Coke is not good for you! Over there in Texas you could squeeze fresh oranges - or out of season freeze or pasturize the juice. Amazon does a deal whereby you pay one fee a year and most things have free delivery. Yes, you can buy your solar panels from Amazon and they can charge your electric bycycle / motorbike. No gas tax/sales tax. Many people take in paying guests 'bed and breakfeast' and because they are below some threshold no sales tax. Actually wealthy as I have pointed out pay very little sales tax. They buy their 70 inch TV from out of state - no tax, Go out on their yacht - provisions etc. no sales tax. Rich also barter - fine black grapes grown in your glasshouses for capons reared by your neighbor for example. Where items are required that attract sales tax and are very expensive - a fine watch collection for example - items can be purchased on trips to Europe etc. , a refund obtained for their sales tax, then kep in a bank vault offshore.
S.
S.
s.
Written by: abc200, 4 Feb 2009 8:04 AM
From: United Kingdom
Amazon do a solar panel for 300 dollars
for charging you electric bicycle.
S.
From: United States
ABC, are you trying to say that the poor do not have the luxury of offshore tax shelter schemes in Bermuda? well, who would have thought it!
Written by: anthonyC, 4 Feb 2009 8:38 AM
From: United States
Again i proved my point
Again those on the left, abc & Dready, resort to insults when confronted with facts that challenge their beliefs.
They spout their anti-business, anti-rich jealous venom wanting to hate them. What they don't want to believe is that it is the rich who pay the vast majority of the taxes.....unless you are a Democrat nominated for a position in the Obama Cabinet.
From: United States
anybody , even a nitwit like yourself, knows that it is the rich who pay most of the taxes; that is a tautology based on the fact that they have most of the money to spend. that does not mean that the taxation levy is most onerous upon them. i do not expect one such as yourself, with limited academic firepower, to grasp the notion, since you refuse to read the topic concerning the incidence of taxation. you should try to; in the unlikely event that you might understand it, you could add something more to your already vast storehouse of knowledge.
Written by: anthonyC, 4 Feb 2009 9:06 AM
From: United States
So how can you defend that those who make more money pay a Higher % of taxes on their income?
Tell me why I pay 35% of my income in Taxes but you only pay 25%.
I want to see how you can rationalize it.
From: United States
you see, anthonyc, there are some people who believe that society comprises everyone, not just selfish boobs like you, who are so egomaniacal , narcissistic, and self absorbed, that they think that only they count. so, some framers of social policy come up with policies to attempt a levelling of the playing field. because there is no way to guarantee that the most worthwhile occupations reward people with the most money, the only way to achieve equity, or a semblance thereof, is to let people who earn very little keep more of it, and to take more from those who can afford to pay. it is called "charging what the traffic will bear".just another idea in social engineering, to achieve a more just world; in other words, something more for you to despise.
Written by: abc200, 4 Feb 2009 9:49 AM
From: United Kingdom
But of course you pay 35% bacause as I have demonstrated above you are unlikely to pay much sales tax as a proportion of income - using the money instead to buy offshore residences, yachts bought in third countries and 'business trips' abroard to secluded islands owned by your friends. So of course it only fair that you should help buy an aircraft carrier or whatever else Uncle Sam needs. Some could argue it would be better for the nation if you paid 40% and a special tax on chickn wings as the people who prepare these special American delecacies don't get much money. I guess the rest of the chicken goes for dog food. The poor people who prepare these wings probably pay taxes on their Bud but you in your luxury yacht sip you Black Label ( maybe Green ) without parting with the tiniest portion of a cent to Uncle Sam in his time of need.
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I guess these idiots never took 3rd grade science.
To further your explanation, Propane and butane are actually by products of the refining of crude and natural gass.( if you ever go by a refinery and see round spherical tanks they contain propane and butane) Natural gas is the only one that can be drilled for and have it come out of the ground. When it is produced it has zero smell and during the scrubbing process to remove condensates an additive is well added to give it its distinct smell.
1st LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS:
Energy can be changed from one form to another, but it cannot be created or destroyed.
So if energy cannot be created or destroyed how the hell can it be RENEWED?????
Finally, two lasers (several watts/mm^2) of the same wavelength and one is phase shifted 180 degrees from the other and are combined and they destructively interfere (according to physics)into nothing (no heat, no sound, etc.), where has the original energy of the two starting lasers gone to? Explain. The 1st law appears to have failed!
Thanks for the physics lesson, but Ondervert , you are wrong about solar and windpower. One study I read, stated it was possible to produce 10 times the total energy consumed around the globe , from windpower alone
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/n....ught-with-bong-cannabis-pipe.html
That is easy
Show them how they are wrong.
Question a liberal's beliefs and they lash back with personal insults.
I am shocked!
S.
S.
S.
S.
Actions, lets see some actions.. I am tired of hearing about these "commitments"
Still waiting for an answer to my question. Until then your insults will go unanswered.
People who make more money generally pay more sales tax. They usually pay more user fees(Taxes). They fuel the economy.
This should be good.
You are pathetic.
YES people who make more money generally pay more in sales tax because they BUY MORE STUFF!!!!
I didn't say they pay a higher sales tax.
SO ANSWER MY QUESTION OR SLINK BACK YOUR YOUR GOVERNMENT SUPPLIED CUBICLE!!!!
S.
From: United Kingdom
Rich people don't pay any sales tax."
Are you really that dense? Get a clue.
Every time I buy a coke I pay sales tax. Gasoline. clothes, Movies, Shows, restaurants, electricity, phone......Only thing I don't pay sales tax are on basic foodstuff and medicines.
I pay tax to drive. I pay tax to fly. I pay tax to fish. i pay tax to hunt.
S.
I am going to order a coke from another state.
Every purchase I make will be made on-line!
I am going to buy my gas from another state. Pay tolls. Licenses (driving, fishing, hunting..ect)
What about restaurants? Hotels?
What a S.F.B.
S.
S.
s.
for charging you electric bicycle.
S.
Again those on the left, abc & Dready, resort to insults when confronted with facts that challenge their beliefs.
They spout their anti-business, anti-rich jealous venom wanting to hate them. What they don't want to believe is that it is the rich who pay the vast majority of the taxes.....unless you are a Democrat nominated for a position in the Obama Cabinet.
Tell me why I pay 35% of my income in Taxes but you only pay 25%.
I want to see how you can rationalize it.
S.
S.