With solar 'farms' that size it is usually people renting out their land to the solar company, for extremely good money.
LOL. Some do I'd guess but not me. I moved out of the "city" to get away from the crazies before I did something that might land me life in jail. This is off topic though.
Oh, come on, really? I’ve walked around solar farms and they are no different than walking around a cornfield! It all depends on whether you like them or not. It’s a lot like art, either you like it or you don’t. It’s a bit disingenuous when you infer there’s some moral character to whats in that field.
First I thought my browser was acting up...With some people, I wanted to ensure that they knew I was being facetious, but not right away
Oh I like dogs, too. I've had a few in my life. However, I do not have the time to give them that I think they deserve right now. Cat don't care. I can be gone for a week and they're fine. Dog I'd like to give more attention to. So, once I retire, I plan on getting another dog.
Some it's not. There's some glitchy thing where some folks have been members for years and it shows it's their 1st post.
Meh. Put the right people together and they'll figure out how hay production in the USA is killing children in Rhodesia.
You are not paying attention. I have repeatedly said fossil fuels are not subsidized. Once again creative accounting has been used to falsify a claim which agrees with the desired bias of those who keep repeating the claim which is all it takes to convince the gullible who vote for the candidate with the most signs lining the streets.
Not my cats. They pretend to ignore me when I'm here but gone for a day or two they get clingy on return.
Real Estate agents will say anything to talk someone into selling their property for less than it is worth so the agent gets the sale.
TVA is a government agency where nobody knows anything. If you are on a TVA grid and there is not a factory at the solar field then TVA is buying the power.
How dare you bring facts and experience to the internet!
Local university is adding 1000 geothermal wells right now to the 1300+ they installed a few years ago. They just finished tearing out all the coal steam generation equipment a month ago. Their boilers were converted to natural gas. They're finishing up a hydroelectric plant on the river that will provide 7% of their electricity needs. They're partnered with a medium sized solar farm a couple miles away. And they're installing a small solar farm on campus next year. I drive by it fairly often just to see the progress.
I have 100 acres. How can I get this "taxpayer funding" to pay for my PV project?
Art is in the eye of the beholder. But, walking around a solar "farm" is like walking around a corn field? Really? That's like saying walking through a downtown of a major city at night is like walking through the woods. Not equal.
He was a very specially trained dog that is still brought up by those that had met him. I no longer train the pups that way, they tend to scare folks who are already afraid of dogs and can't read them. Then he was a giant for the breed and that didn't help. The photo is a partial picture of him on one of my trips to the east coast.
It's really limited to what you can grow under these installations. Is it possible? Yes but the labor goes up tremendously and most plants still need more light so you get slower growth. Grazing maybe for a short time anyways. The install would also cost more if you were to try and bring equipment under the array. A lot of what if and or buts. Honestly though, (even though I'm against it and don't consider these an AG business or proper zoning use)I don't blame those that want to do this with their land, it's a easier way to actually make the land pay. It's not like many of the kids these days want to live the life of a farmer and actually do physical work.
So, not much info to really discuss this. How old are these plants? Megawatts produced per acre? One LOOKS to be coal fire and the other natural gas. What generation is the tech in these? The IPCC claims these type of plants put out 2x the CO2 (not a pollutant) than solar but they also do not include the life cycles of each or the degradation while mining for the rare earth needed to produce them.. What you see in the finished product isn't equal as with solar a lot of the damage is done offsite.These plants are not new by any means and were built under different circumstances than we currently have. Depending on the tech used in solar PV systems need 3.5 to 10 acres per MW, CSP systems need 4 to 16.5 acres. Yeah, a big variation there on land requirements but it's all about location. If you read Treehugger, solar is all rainbows and unicorns. If they chose to use old industrial sites, landfills or better yet, as they decommission these site as planned... use them. That may just get rid of some of the opposition. But to take farmland off the roles is just plain stupid. The country isn't as well set food production wise as it used to be. But, I bet these plants will work in a storm and freezing conditions. Have people not learned from the Texas fiasco or what is going on energy wise in Europe yet. If you want solar, put it on your house, get a hybrid system so you can use it when the grid has a failure and add in some batteries for those times it won't produce. The history of those plants would be interesting, was it actually farm land to start with? Did the emanate domain for the greater good? And so on. Since we are on a tractor forum, who wants an electric tractor? With power supplied by solar to stay on topic
Solar has it's place, and it's on your rooftop.
