[SBE] Going Green, Saves Green

[Ron Castro]

Responsible engineers wouldn't pollute the environment by using bulbs that 
contain mercury.  Besides, most offices switched to fluorescent tubes 
decades ago, so if you're just now changing from incandescent, you're about 
50 years behind the times.

You haven't addressed how your solar panels are going to help global warming 
when all they do is amplify the heat-island effect and contribute more to 
global warming than the CO2 they would save.   Notwithstanding, the cost of 
the electricity that solar panels generate can never be offset by the 
initial cost of the panels, equipment and installation, the maintenance, the 
value of the real estate they waste and the eventual cost of replacement 
when they fail after a few years.

A good example that kind of foolish thinking are the people who rushed out 
to by a Prius.  If you add in the cost of replacing the battery after four 
years, which is around $5,000, you could drive for less $ per mile if you 
drove a big SUV!  And then, how do "responsible stewards" get rid of all the 
polluting chemicals from all those dead batteries?

We could "save the planet" if we all just turned off our TV's when Oprah 
comes on.  But then, she couldn't afford her Lear jet, her $50,000,000 home 
in San Clemente, her air-conditioned mansion in Hawaii, her penthouse in NY, 
her villas in Europe, etc.  But I'm sure she owns a Prius, so she's OK!

         Ron Castro
 Chief Technical Officer
    Results Radio, LLC
               N6IE
      www.N6IE.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bo" <wbratchr at iglou.com>
To: "'sbe member discussion mail list'" <sbe at sbe.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 11:06 AM
Subject: [SBE] Going Green, Saves Green



> No matter what your reasons for "going green", or "staying the course in

> your own lives", going green in business just makes "cents".  You can

> question "the underlying meaning" and the "communist" aspects of being

> responsible stewards of the planet, but what about saving money?

>

> I'm the video engineer for the City of Louisville, and we are going green 

> to

> save money.  Just by simply replacing standard light bulbs with 

> fluorescents

> we are expecting to save over $100,000 in bulbs and the labor to replace

> them over the next couple of years.  For businesses today "green" just 

> makes

> sense to save money.  And heck, if it helps the planet in the process even

> better.

> LEDs on towers save money, low power transmitters save money.  They also

> reduce our dependence on energy costs that keep going up.  I remember

> reading an article awhile back that a radio station was experimenting with

> solar panels at their transmitter that would provide almost 50% of the

> electricity for the building.  Why?  To save money.

>

> Personally, my mother always told me that being a responsible citizen of 

> our

> planet was a part of my "moral" duty (it's in the Bible somewhere), but 

> now

> that money is involved I'm really motivated.  And, if we look to others

> (especially at hypocrites) to get our motivation we're just lemmings, 

> eager

> to follow, right or wrong.

>

> So go save the planet and some money at the same time!!!!

>

> Bo Bratcher

>

>

>

> -----Original Message-----

> From: sbe-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-bounces at sbe.org] On Behalf Of Ron

> Castro

> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 12:22 PM

> To: sbe member discussion mail list

> Subject: Re: [SBE] Discussion Thread

>

> Henry, I agree and your perfectly right to raise that point.  When Chriss

> asks what we are doing at our stations to "go green" we have the

> responsibility to question the whole underlying argument about the 

> necessity

>

> to "go green" in the first place.  When worthless dweebs like Sean Penn 

> and

> Madonna tell us that "we" have to "go green", and then the hop in their

> private jets and burn up 10,000 gallons of jet fuel just to go to a party

> with some other dweebs, we have to take issue with their position.  The 

> "do

> as I say, not as I do" Hollywood hypocrisy is neck deep as you can see in

> this article:

>

> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_a

> rticle_id=564215&in_page_id=1773

>

> "Green" is the new euphemism for Communism and "An Inconvenient Truth" is

> the Reefer Madness of the 21st Century.

>

>         Ron Castro

> Chief Technical Officer

>    Results Radio, LLC

>               N6IE

>      www.N6IE.com

>

>

> ----- Original Message ----- 

> From: <A9xw at cs.com>

> To: <sbe at sbe.org>

> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 8:58 AM

> Subject: Re: [SBE] Discussion Thread

>

>

>> Al Gore is not a politician, he left politics after losing the election.

>> now

>> he makes hundreds of  millions in energy biz, on top of the tens of

>> millions

>> he made before.

>>

>> Henry

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