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Dec 10, 2009 | 06:54 PM

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jake00

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all the way to cali... imagine the voltage drop

Dec 11, 2009 | 01:42 AM

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Originally Posted by fabmandelux

Scott, what I meant by dearly was relative to what we pay for our power. We get all our power from BPA and the dam's. My cost is $.035 per kWh. The power from the turbines will be sold retail in California for up to $.16/kwh. 4 times my cost.

Don, the difference is because it's up to each individual state's Public Utilities Commission to set the rates the utility can charge the customer. Sure sounds like a great deal for you as a landowner. I'll bet this accelerated your retirement plans a little. Sounds like Uncle Don will have no worries!

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Originally Posted by FORD RANGER

i have applied with that co that does that. but they just said they won't hire anyone with no experience. thats it... maybe cali might but that company will not. so me being 48 far from young. scott like you said they hire young people and not me. see i'm already out the door.. sorry guys.. i'm not trying to pick a fight or arguement. but i'm unemployed and livin' on the system. whats wrong with hiring an older person??? thats what i don't get.........why can't i go thru the training program.

Sorry, Jack. Man that really sucks. Here in SoCal it is really hard to find people to man the plant. No one wants to work nights, weekends or holidays. Especially the young folks. We had three jobs open for almost two years before we put could butt's in seats. Ended up hiring three unqualified old men like (us) and training them. It seems like nobody else wants to work in heavy industry anymore. They all want to "work with computers."

Dec 11, 2009 | 08:30 AM

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clux

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Originally Posted by CampSpringsJohn

Showing your green/peta side!

If I had a green peta I wouldn't be showing it.

Dec 11, 2009 | 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by horsepuller

Sure sounds like a great deal for you as a landowner. I'll bet this accelerated your retirement plans a little. Sounds like Uncle Don will have no worries!

I wish Scott! I don't own the land, I have a long term lease on the house and 10 acres around it ( $1/year for the next 14 years). The money from the turbines goes to a family trust for the owners who live out of state.

Once the turbines are built the owners are going to drill a new well and put up 4, 100 acre pivots which will go into Canola and all the canola oil will go to producing biodiesel in a plant I'm building. I have a 40% share of the net$ from the bio plant.

I still plan on retiring next Nov, but will still be responsible for the bio production.

Dec 11, 2009 | 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by fabmandelux

Once the turbines are built the owners are going to drill a new well and put up 4, 100 acre pivots which will go into Canola and all the canola oil will go to producing biodiesel in a plant I'm building. I have a 40% share of the net$ from the bio plant.

I didn't know there was anywhere in the west you could still drill new irrigation wells.

Dec 11, 2009 | 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by clux

I didn't know there was anywhere in the west you could still drill new irrigation wells.

I don't know where you got your info from, but here in Oregon as long as you can afford the drilling and power costs you can put in all the irrigation wells you want.

Just down the road from me their irrigating 180,000 acres!

Dec 11, 2009 | 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by fabmandelux

Just across the border in Idaho there's no new well allowed, and practically a war going on over existing water rights. I guess maybe we should bring some drilling rigs out there.