Choice: food or solar fields

[jyoutz]

Yeah, but it’s only 1 of the 27 producing only 1.6% of our electricity. They fall apart quickly and kill birds. Gas is the way here.
Your state is sunny & windy. Ours isn’t. You always talk as if everything that works for you in your area works for everyone else, everywhere else. ‘
It doesn’t.
Solar wont work in cloudy areas and wind wont work where theres little wind.

Solar actually does work on cloudy days, it’s just not as efficient. Gas will be an important part of the energy picture for awhile.

 

[MossRoad]

Yeah, but it’s only 1 of the 27 producing only 1.6% of our electricity. They fall apart quickly and kill birds. Gas is the way here.
Your state is sunny & windy. Ours isn’t. You always talk as if everything that works for you in your area works for everyone else, everywhere else. ‘
It doesn’t.
Solar wont work in cloudy areas and wind wont work where theres little wind.

I don't get why they'd put wind farms in PA either. That red blob in Indiana makes sense, and there's a bunch of them there.

 

[Hay Dude]

Solar actually does work on cloudy days, it’s just not as efficient. Gas will be an important part of the energy picture for awhile.

Are you a fantasizer that thinks the whole country will run on wind & solar?

 

[jyoutz]

Are you a fantasizer that thinks the whole country will run on wind & solar?

You don’t seem to read my posts. That isn’t at all what I said.

 

[MossRoad]

Solar info shows PA is a lot less than other areas as well, however, I have no idea what the scale refers to, so just because it's lower than, say, the SW U.S., I don't know how much lower.

Where solar is found - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

An introduction to solar energy resources with maps showing U.S. solar radiation resources, global solar radiation resource, and solar electricity generation from utility-scale solar and small-scale photovoltaic systems by state for the United States in most recent year annual data are available.

www.eia.gov

 

[Hay Dude]

Lots of cloudy days in PA. Not like Pacific NW, but more than the southwest

 

[MossRoad]

Lots of cloudy days in PA. Not like Pacific NW, but more than the southwest

Yep, here in this part if IN as well, however, they still produce when it's cloudy, just not as much.

As you know, we agree that nuclear is the solution.

 

[jyoutz]

Yep, here in this part if IN as well, however, they still produce when it's cloudy, just not as much.

As you know, we agree that nuclear is the solution.

Nuclear works very well and I’m sure that the micro units sized for a community will become popular in the future instead of the large scale plants we know today. But still every state fights being the site of a waste disposal facility. Did the Yucca Mountain site ever get constructed in Nevada?

 

[Gee Ray]

It is amazing how a lot of people promote the use of nuclear power and fail to look at the true cost of it. The mining for ore, the refining of the ore, the dangers of transportation of the ore to power plant are all important problems. Then when you decommission a nuclear power plant what do you do with it for the next several thousands of years as the area "cools" down? Now then there is the problem of the waste. With a half life of over 100,000 years where do we hide it?

But it is all good. There is not any of the evil fossil fuels used.

 

[Fixastuff]

Seems like instead of big solar fields all those panels should just be placed on roofs of existing homes/structures.