California State University Auxiliary Services $1,735,000.00

Oh boy, another research grant! This one is for another "energy and sustainability" project, a.k.a green energy and environmentalism.

These projects exist to do 2 things:

1. Create jobs for people who have no way to make a living in the Private Sector, and:

2. Furnish the government with more data which will translate into more restrictive laws to govern our lives.

Whether any meaningful jobs are even created by this malarkey is immaterial. Your government has decided, against your wishes, that spending millions on this is necessary (and a payback to the Environmental Lobby which donates to campaign war chests), and you are expected to foot the bill no matter how much it costs, and regardless of whether anything useful is accomplished.

ACCURATE ENGINEERING INTEGRATED CONSTRUCTION SERVICES, INC. $1,900,043

Accurate Engineering was contracted to build a solar panel installation at the Navy base in Coronado. The expected base output of the system would be at or near 200 kilowatts.

Unfortunately, the entire photovoltaic generation system could be replaced with a single wind turbine for half the cost of the solar system.

A petroleum powered generator capable of putting out 200 kilowatts costs about $50,000.00.

Yet the Environmental Left is madly in love with solar power, even though it's the most expensive per kilowatt. So what if we throw away borrowed taxpayers dollars? We're saving the earth, remember?