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"Do you want clean electricity from renewable resources and no carbon footprint?"
"Damn right I do!!"
"Good. We have a project all drawn up and ready to get under way immediately to provide exactly that."
"Whoa! Hold on a minute! I didn't mean HERE! This needs to be built somewhere else!!"
"OK. Where should we build this?"
"I really don't give a damn but certainly not here! Oh, can you please figure this out quick, my EV will be here next week?"
Some towns are saying no to wind farms
Some area towns are doing all they can to prevent large wind farms from blowing into their borders. Clarence and Tonawanda are crafting laws to prohibit all large-scale industrial-sized windbuffalonews.com
Great Lakes Wind Feasibility study sparks concern, protest
HAMBURG, N.Y. — Western New York may have wind turbines along the Lake Erie shoreline and in Wyoming County but some are worried a new area could be on the horizon. Lake Erie and Lake Ontario themselves. The pushback comes just as the New Yorkwww.wind-watch.org
Residents Protest Lake Erie Wind Energy Project
DUNKIRK – Yellow signs lined the street along the Lake Erie shoreline Saturday as community members gathered to protest a planned wind farm project along the shore. A few dozen concerned citizens gathered in Dunkirk’s ...
It is all relative. I prefer to see a wind and solar farm than long chimney stacks. The issue is what to do when the wind stops or it is snowing.
My issue with the solar farms is they are slowly taking up farmland. Not a big deal right now but we might want that farmland for producing food at some point. Whether that be for a growing population or the need to increase our food security in this country. And restoring the land isn’t an overnight process. I think if solar farms are going to put up they should not be on good farmland. I’m big believer in property rights and within reason you should be able to do as you wish with your land but I think we might be slowly shooting ourselves in the foot on this one. I also tend to think solar farms are ugly. We have one going up in town that is the biggest clusterfuck. About 6 months behind schedule, bunch of equipment was installed incorrectly, they didn’t put up natural barriers for nearby homes like they said they would. And the landowner will probably be dead in 5 years so he doesn’t care.
Housing developments are a bigger threat to farmland here in the HV
100% right in many places. Urban sprawl is a much bigger threat to farmland overall than solar farms. Solar farms are just the new threat and are being put onto farmland that would probably never be housing. Or at least not in the near future.
The ones I’ve seen in my town and the town over they mount each panel to fifty ton concrete pillars strong enough to put a house on
True and good thinking.
I get this solar community thing and I was like oh I’ll Check this out. So essentially you buy a share in a solar field and you pay them for the electric they give you and they sell it to national grid. You get I think it was 15% credit or reduction in your electric bill. Shitty thing is you still pay the delivery or maitenance charges. So it’s not worth it at all. It gets very mixed reviews, some love it and others hate it. I’m passing.The ones I’ve seen in my town and the town over they mount each panel to fifty ton concrete pillars strong enough to put a house on
I’d like it on my house but not until it makes sense. AFAIK the only people with solar now got suckered into some twenty year lease deal from a solar company. Even covering my entire south roof would only give me 50% max of my electricity usage. But until I can get the entire array installed for $7k all in or less it’s a waste of time.
The only way solar makes sense to me is if you can use it as a backup when the grid goes down.
When I moved to NY they had this thing where you can choose on the free market for your energy supply. For the life of me I could not make heads or tails of it. I looked at various company's offerings and they were all very opaque. I could not ever figure out what the actual real damn cost was going to be long term and how to compare it to RGE.
You could set up a nice big battery array for your house, but then the batteries will largely sit unused and/or decay over time anyway. If you were pretty thrifty with use and had a massive array you could run your house at night off-grid each day but that enters fully into hobby realm because it just makes no economic sense.
The one they are doing here is 22 acres. They drill and pour concrete footers and then mount the pipe and panels to that.The ones I’ve seen in my town and the town over they mount each panel to fifty ton concrete pillars strong enough to put a house on
I’d like it on my house but not until it makes sense. AFAIK the only people with solar now got suckered into some twenty year lease deal from a solar company. Even covering my entire south roof would only give me 50% max of my electricity usage. But until I can get the entire array installed for $7k all in or less it’s a waste of time.
I have such a battery array right now.
I remember that stuff to, but I could never figure out what I was buying from who or what the price would be either. I passed as well.When I moved to NY they had this thing where you can choose on the free market for your energy supply. For the life of me I could not make heads or tails of it. I looked at various company's offerings and they were all very opaque. I could not ever figure out what the actual real damn cost was going to be long term and how to compare it to RGE.
Eventually it turned out many of these companies were playing fast and loose, which made me feel a lot better about the fact I couldn't see any benefit to it. I think the only point to any of these alternate supplies is if you're willing to actively pay more money for "green". Some are (I'm not). Until it's cheaper I'm sticking with RGE
The solar roof tech is okay but efficiency needs to get a lot, lot better. The panels produce less as they age, and then you've got the enjoyment of dealing with them when you need to replace the shingles as well. The tesla panels are like so much from tesla: never pan out.
I have 2x Solark 12k inverters sitting in my garage right now. All I'm really waiting on is the panels themselves and some electrical gear.
So wait we want green energy, just not from you. Hilarious
They don't want so much that it destabilized the grid.
Wow. Thats pretty nice.
This makes sense. Instead we make them in areas that deer need to roam and we fence them and out them a few feet off the ground at most. Nothing loves there and no wildflowers or meadows for the animals that need them.
