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Solar Fields
#3720996
08/04/22 08:44 AM
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dagwood
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Escambia County Florida has announced a third solar field in the north part of the county. Each of these is a little over 500 acres. They go in and clear cut all the trees and jam as many of these Chinese produced panels on the now bare ground. They say it produces a maximum of 75 megawatts but nothing at night and very little when cloudy. What is the forum members opinion of these fields since it looks like it's only going to be ramped up. Florida Solar Field
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Re: Solar Fields
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08/04/22 08:57 AM
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Escambia County Florida has announced a third solar field in the north part of the county. Each of these is a little over 500 acres. They go in and clear cut all the trees and jam as many of these Chinese produced panels on the now bare ground. They say it produces a maximum of 75 megawatts but nothing at night and very little when cloudy. What is the forum members opinion of these fields since it looks like it's only going to be ramped up. Florida Solar FieldI always just think it’s a giant waste of prime farmland when it’s over here on the east coast. Worlds population is growing. We’re gonna run out of food before we run out of fossil fuel.
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Re: Solar Fields
[Re: dagwood]
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08/04/22 09:21 AM
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They talked about them on Rick and bubba the other day. Apparently they get so hot they kill birds flying over to the tune of around 1000 a year.
Would walk over a naked woman to get to a gobblin turkey!
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Re: Solar Fields
[Re: dagwood]
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08/04/22 09:47 AM
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trlrdrdave
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I don't mind the idea of putting one on a rooftop to supply/supplement one building. I'm real surprised solar water heating is not bigger. Have the sun heat the water before it hits the real water heater if needed. I get bored I think about these things.
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Re: Solar Fields
[Re: dagwood]
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08/04/22 09:55 AM
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Skinny
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I did a lot of the environmental studies for numerous solar projects, and they are by far the worst for the environment. If you think a new subdivision eats up a bunch of good farm/wildlife land then just look at how much space a solar project takes up. BTW Lowndes County is a getting a big one near the interstate at Letohatchee and Perry County is getting a big one near Demopolis.
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Re: Solar Fields
[Re: dagwood]
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08/04/22 10:04 AM
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Folks tend to put solar panels on their house without researching everything. I’d guess the excess liability insurance policy required by the power company doesn’t come up in the solar sales pitch. I think some require a $3 million umbrella. Something like that. Yeah get free electric and sell excess back to the power company.
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Re: Solar Fields
[Re: dagwood]
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08/04/22 10:50 AM
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"Solar is renewable and good!"
Except that the 500 acres to put in a "solar farm" scorches the landscape, nothing grows, few if any animals (snakes and spiders, probably) will live there, and they don't produce the energy the Greens claim they do.
It's a buncha friggin' bullhockey.
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Re: Solar Fields
[Re: Boathand]
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08/04/22 12:10 PM
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YellaLineHunter
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We definitely don’t talk about the land beneath these arrays and future use of damage enough. Out in the desert the use of these large tracts is fine, the land just stays at it is. Around here how do they keep the land from overtaking them? Do they just spray chemicals making it bare dirt and susceptible to erosion washing away the top soil, gravel the entire area and spray to keep growth down, or pay some guys to run gas powered equipment to keep everything cut back for as long as it’s there? I’ve seen both.
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Re: Solar Fields
[Re: dagwood]
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08/04/22 03:34 PM
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dagwood
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I did a little research on the amount of CO2 absorbed by forest land. Best I can find is an acre of woodland absorbs about 30,000 lbs of CO2 a year which offsets the emissions of 2.7 gas burning cars. So 500 acres would offset the emissions of 1,350 cars. Also, the same acre generates 11 tons of O2.
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