"...said Matt Cheney, CEO of MMA"

Cheney.

Hmmm.

Where have I heard that name before?

"Average wholesale electricity prices in the US run at around 4-5 cents per kilowatt-hour (according to the Department of Energy)."

Actually the link you provided appears to show national figures only up to 2005 (at which point the US average WAS around 5c per kwH. A spot check of the more up-to-date spreadsheets of the individual regions seems to indicate a rate closer to 7c per kwH -- and the trend is clearly upward. Let's start with 5c to give you the benefit of the doubt.

" Thus, the 25 million solar kilowatt-hours each year would normally have cost the USAF, erm, from one to 1.25 million dollars." Based on the low assumption of 5c/kwH, that would be the $1.25 million figure. From that, a savings of $1 million would be 80% -- not likely, but not impossible either -- especially if the power co. were giving the base a discount in order to drum up publicity. If we go to a 7c rate, the cost of the electricity would be $1.75 million, and the $1 million savings would be a plausible 57%.

"Presumably they buy wholesale." You know, some would say that reporters should research stories and report on facts, rather than make presumtions.

Solar powered air base ? coal powered b-52's ?

This isn't a "green" policy, it's a "what the fek are we gunna do when the other guys have 99% of the remaining oil" policy....

Maksim,

Thanks for that link .....I couldn't help but chuckle at "Why is it that all the cute ones are insane?"

Tanuki,

Beware attacking at night, the light they work under renders lunatics.

Spookily enough, we might all be able to agree with that given US policies which disintegrate before our eyes rather than build infrastructure to serve and protect.

There's obviously a line or two of corrupt malignant code right at the beginning of the Programs affecting everything the Programs then subsequently do. Something Corrupt right at the Heart/Core although it is not right being wrong and corrupt, off course, of course.

its just a big smoke screen, or shoudl thab be sun screen to hide the fact they are using secret alien technologies!

How much fossil fuel went into that and at what cost? And to maintain and repair them?