[SBE] Going Green, Saves Green

[Adrienne Abbott]

Sometimes people go "green" because there's just no other way to do it, not
to be "green", or to "save the planet" or to be "politically correct" but
just because they need "alternatives". One of my client stations, KRNG, is
just such an example. Their preferred tower location did not have power and
the cost to get it there was prohibitive. "There" happens to be a 6800 foot
mountain top east of Reno with no roads to the site. The station is a
Christian Rock non-profit and they had to watch their $$$. The solution was
a combination of both solar and wind power and they have some interesting
stories to tell. The first wind turbine they got was wind-rated at 120 MPH.
The first year it burned up. The manufacturer replaced it at no charge
because their engineers wanted to tear into it to find out what failed. The
new turbine was rated up to 160. It burned up two winters ago. Same story
with the Manufacturer. I don't know how the new one is rated. The solar
array has survived the winds with little damage, but we do get winter high
pressure ridges here where the skies are overcast and the wind doesn't blow
so they are putting in a small, stand-by generator. The concrete pilings for
the radio tower, the turbine tower and the solar array were all built by
parishioners who did the concrete pours in one eight-hour day. They had
to--that was the time limit on the helicopter. The turbine and solar array
are used to charge a bank of 72 batteries that power the specially-built,
48-volt transmitter. They've had very little down time over the years and
they don't have power bills for the site. Other than the installation
expenses for the two replacement turbines, the transmitter has been very low
maintenance. I don't think they've ever penciled it out, but they will tell
you that the turbine and solar array have been a good investment for them.
They won't tell you that they are "green", but they will tell you that they
are reliable servants to their community. 
Adrienne

-----Original Message-----
From: sbe-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-bounces at sbe.org] On Behalf Of Bo
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 11:06 AM
To: 'sbe member discussion mail list'
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
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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


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