June 26, 2010
Graph of the Day for June 26, 2010
"Spain's Dr. Gabriel Calzada - the author of a damning study concluding that Spain's ‘green jobs' energy program has been a catastrophic economic failure - was mailed a dismantled bomb on Tuesday by solar energy company Thermotechnic... Says Calzada: ‘Before opening it, I called [Thermotechnic] to know what was inside ... they answered, it was their answer to my energy pieces.'" Christopher Horner, Pajamas Media. (HT: AoSHQ.)
Net jobs lost per megawatt from green energy, by source
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Source: Gabriel Calzada Alvarez et al, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, March 2009.
Hoven's Index for June 26, 2010
Spain's cost in subsidies per green energy job:
Mini-hydro: 542,825 Euros ($665,661)
Photo-voltaic: 667,826 Euros ($818,887)
Wind: 1,095,795 Euros ($1,343,663)
Average overall: 571,138 Euros ($700,329)
Sources: Gabriel Calzada Alvarez et al, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and online currency converter.
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