Associated Builders and Contractors
New Mexico Chapter
Energy consumption

Thursday April 29, 2010 06:36 PV CYCLE. Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition. Sandia National Laboratories Mixed Waste Landfill cadmium and nickel statistical analysis. As incandescent bulbs are phased out. EET March/April 10 page 37. Wikipedia. Green2V project draws concerns and questions. New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department contacts. When Green Turns Brown. ABC NEW MEXICO - CONTACT US rrivera@abcnm.org

Thursday April 22, 2010 12:40 http://www.prosefights.org/scriptpollute/pnmproposal/buildersandcontractors.htm#buildersandcontractors Hello Roxanne Rivera-Wiest And Bob Pelletier, Purpose of this email is to point out that WARN may not be the main threat to builders and ask the Association of Builders and Contractors help in our attempt to evaluate practical applicability solar generation of electricity. PNM electric load forecaster Steve Martin identified new construction, increased building area and penetration of refrigerated air conditioning as culprits in New Mexico increasing electric demand. Photographed and audio recorded 95 mile field trip Sunday April 18, 2010 to the Mariposa subdivision of Rio Rancho may help illustrate new construction demands on electricity, natural gas, and water. Richard Shipman lecture on practical solar generation of electricity pointed out that solar generated electricity is not applicable in some cases. Clothes dryer (the single largest energy waster in the average New Mexico home) identified in Al Zelicoff energy tips Albuquerque Journal Tuesday April 20, 2010 page C1 may not be suitably operated by solar generated electricity? Proposals for the PNM 500-kilowatt PV system were due April 15, 2010. Knowledge of panel type, vendor, total area, and electrical panel interconnect schematics submitted by bidders would be valuable to assess whether our empirical electric voltage and current results gathered from two Harbor Freight monocrystalline panels agree with what bidders propose. This information would be used to test the assertion: fast neutron Santa Fe, NM January 12, 2009 From actual experience, wind farms produce 1.2 watts per square meter. Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic methods capture 5 to 6 watts per square meter. There is no economy of size in either technology. Dividing the watts you need by those values gives the land area in square meters needed to produce the juice. The numbers are astronomical http://www.topix.net/forum/source/santa-fe-new-mexican/T0QVJ5UD3R25C8HRL If fast neutron's assertion is correct, then perhaps we should look to other solutions to our increasing energy use? Seeking funding for our solar generation of electricity project will continue. We ask the Association of Builders and Contractors written support of our attempts to get bidder information from PNM. Please respond either positive or negative by April 29, 2010. Thank you and happy earth day. bill

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