Brown brought info to light
To the Editor:
My hat goes off to you, Delbert Brown.
As a citizen of Klickitat County, you have worked very hard trying to get the truth out to the public regarding the hospital’s management company, Brim. All the money and time you spent requesting public records, attending public board meetings, and presenting this information to the appropriate professionals in the field who didn’t want to believe you or be associated with any information you held, has now become a reality.
Delbert, you had a dedicated passion and commitment for the truth regarding this management company. Job well done!
Debbie Moore
Goldendale
Green jobs in Klickitat County
To the Editor:
I wanted to follow up on some of the ideas on the article titled, “Green Energy District gains steam.” At a meeting last Friday, which I organized, I said I believe Washington is, “the Saudi Arabia of renewable energy”. I did say that and believe it. We have an opportunity to come together and create enormous opportunity for our area in renewable electricity and affordable, renewable fuel from algae, which can create as much as 15,000 gallons of bio-diesel annually, per acre, and is not hurting a food supply like corn did. We could be selling affordable electricity and fuel, as well as exporting fuel and electricity to other states. This is what I’m working on.
I wanted to point out, however, that solar updraft towers don’t need to be 1,000 feet tall as officials from economic development suggested, but rather need to be high enough to see a differential in temperature between the inside and the outside of the greenhouse structure so it then vents up a chimney or stack of some sort, where it turns turbines as the air escapes. For that matter, the tower could be 100 feet tall and perhaps even shorter. If there is pushback on this I can and will find a different location for these jobs and this first solar updraft tower, which I believe will be the only one currently operating in the world and the first in North America.
I absolutely believe in these projects and will continue talking to local city, county and state officials to help bring new green-collar jobs to our community.
John Gotts
White Salmon
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