Posted on 03/27/2015 4:22:26 PM PDT by CedarDave
We have property in the U.P. with 20 acres of trees. Love it up there. We are far from tree huggers. What a waste.
Actually, most intelligent people wouldn’t.
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Federal Government task force to investigate sudden large CO2 Increase In NJ
I hope somebody has the ability to track costs on this. I will be interesting to see how long the solar farm takes to pay itself off.
Wonder how they plan to store energy for cloudy days and use at night?
New Jersey has a renewable portfolio standard of 22.5% by 2021.
It’s OK to destroy the environment and wildlife when it’s for imaginary “green” energy.
Another example of the TOTAL failure of the American education system. Total failure!
A massive solar panel installation in New Jersey. I would say that is a joke but then again, it is New Jersey. There is no way in hell that a solar installation in NJ will be economical and practical. Consider all of the cloudy and rainy weather in the state. Then add all of the snow and ice in the Winter months. Who gets to shovel the snow and break the ice off of those panels?
It is quite apparent that this company will be getting massive government subsidies in one form or another. Even so, based upon the experience of solar panel installations in the deserts of Southern California, the electric generation output of these panels never comes close to the original projected electric generation. We have a huge installation here in the desert funded by massive guaranteed loans. It is not coming close to its projected generating capacity. We hear such excuses as there being more cloudy days than anticipated. The funniest one is that the con trails from commercial passenger jets are blocking out the sun.
Yup. Smart ones though, who practice tree harvesting, not clear cutting. Met them, heard from them, a couple of years ago. Love trees. Shade in the summer and beautiful in the fall and winter. I like dead trees, too, and log homes. Small log homes. Small logs and small homes. I hate to clean. Wood rather be outdoors. Seeing the Sequoias is one of 2 things on my bucket list.
Just what I was thinkin’ when I clicked on the abstract. New Jersey fools. Our state borders it, and I can’t untinkingly even drive over to get gasoline without endangering my freedom big time, because I’m licensed to carry CDW in my state.
And all those birds....
Just rapacious.
Oh. An absurd government fiat mandating 22.5% renewables by 2021? Awesome! Haha!
Well don't let me stand in your way. Start clear-cutting!
This is when it gets SILLY. If they want to generate 23 Megawatts, they can do it WITHOUT cutting down a forest, on land that isn’t doing much in the first place - such as desert in the Southwest. Furthermore, because of the sunshine there, it would only require half the land, and if you’re trying to SAVE THE WORLD from global warming, it doesn’t matter which grid you feed, as long as you’re offsetting what would otherwise be fossil fuel burning, which would be the case out there.
But then putting it in New Jersey, no doubt in PLAIN VIEW of people going to 6 Flags “sends a message” that you care, like buying a Tesla. You don’t buy a Tesla because it’s practical or useful, you buy it to show others how much you care, and they don’t.
Slick!
“The funniest one is that the con trails from commercial passenger jets are blocking out the sun.”
I heard it too, but not quite. It’s the CONTRAILS from those jets, and if you put the farm under an airway, they will hit you hard - they do basically turn into linear clouds out there. The problem for the planners was that NOAA sunlight charts don’t take that into account and I doubt the IDIOTS that were designing the system ever did a site survey, until it was too late.
Ya got to brown to be green? This Nation is getting really weird.
Trees absorb CO2 and give off oxygen. Has any scientist bothered to calculate what the real impact of this would be? Are they really going to gain anything toward a cleaner environment?
I tell everyone who mentions Globull warming that my solution is not a Carbon Tax, but to plant lots and lots of trees.
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