{"id":223982,"date":"2017-01-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/letters-to-the-editor-jan-27-2017\/"},"modified":"2017-01-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T08:00:00","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-jan-27-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/letters-to-the-editor-jan-27-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the editor \u2013 Jan. 27, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Power plant numbers need clarification<\/strong><\/p>\n

Re: \u201cSharp Hospital goes off the grid\u201d [Volume 6, Issue 12 or bit.ly\/2i64xC1<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n

I read your article on the new power plant at Grossmont Hospital. It doesn\u2019t make sense to me but I don\u2019t have the figures.<\/p>\n

The hospital pays $180,000 monthly to SDG&E ($43,000,000 over 20 years). The facility cost $47,000,000.<\/p>\n

Interest on tax exempt bonds should be somewhat over 2 percent about $960,000 each year. The interest will drop as the principal is paid off. Let\u2019s guess $13,000.000.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the power plant does not run unattended. One person at $100,000 annually with fringe benefits times five people (needed to keep one staff member on duty at all times) $500,000 annually or $10,000,000 for 20 years.<\/p>\n

The natural gas needed to power the plant isn\u2019t free. What do you think? Perhaps $400,000 each year or $8,000,000 for the period we discussed.<\/p>\n

How about insurance? What about $50,000 or $1,000,000 for 20 years?<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s talk about service contracts.\u00a0Solar charged $18,000,000. Perhaps $80,000 annually. You got it $1,600,000.<\/p>\n

Your article explained a byproduct is free heating and chilling. Isn\u2019t that a part of the current SDG&E bill?<\/p>\n

No problems if SDG&E goes down. Everything breaks at some point.\u00a0 The hospital will need to maintain their current generators. Not mentioned in the article.<\/p>\n

Also, the plant reduces pollutants by 90 percent. While that is probably true I am not aware of any generating plants in East County. Therefore, am I correct the 10 percent pollutants released by the plant will be expelled in East County and somewhere else will get the benefits of reduced pollution \u2014 not you or me?<\/p>\n

Now I know I am guessing at the numbers, but I\u2019ll bet I\u2019m pretty close. I probably forgot some expenses too. Can we get the actual numbers?<\/p>\n

My guess, we taxpayers and patients get stuck with $32,600,000 over 20 years.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s our money folks!<\/p>\n

\u2014Jim Elliott, La Mesa<\/em><\/p>\n

Interesting article about Sharp Hospital in the La Mesa Courier. How misleading can an article be?<\/p>\n

Free power forever?\u00a0 “Zero” as you stated in a well-worded statement.<\/p>\n

Ninety percent reduction in greenhouse gas.\u00a0Were you fed this info, or did you\u00a0just make it up yourself?<\/p>\n

The gas company is giving them free natural gas? Extra employee or two to run the plant for free? Etcetera.<\/p>\n

The hot exhaust has no greenhouse gas?\u00a0Are you kidding me.\u00a0This little power plant runs 10 times as efficient as a SDG&E power plant?<\/p>\n

Answers please.\u00a0What is the net cost saving per month?\u00a0 My guess, with\u00a0all maintenance and depreciation? Negative 20 percent.<\/p>\n

When I see such a misleading article, I am compelled to speak out.<\/p>\n

\u2014Jerry Kay, La Mesa<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Power plant numbers need clarification Re: \u201cSharp Hospital goes off the grid\u201d [Volume 6, Issue 12 or bit.ly\/2i64xC1] I read your article on the new power plant at Grossmont Hospital. It doesn\u2019t make sense to me but I don\u2019t have the figures.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":223981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11548","_seopress_titles_title":"Letters to the editor \u2013 Jan. 27, 2017","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11548,11593,11552],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-la-mesa-courier","category-no-images","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}