Food would be better but today that’s insane ,LOL
And this only produces in daylight and when clouds don’t block sunlight.
There is a ginormous solar farm south of Dallas on an old TXI mine. Crazy stuff.
Climate policy isn’t about saving the planet any more than CoupFlu policy was about protecting public health.
What a waste of land.
Coal plants stand up better to hailstorm and tornados.
Wind and solar are great unless you have access to the grid. By themselves they are unreliable so you wouldn’t use it for anyone’s life support system unless you really don’t like them. Over 90% of solar panels will never produce as much electricity as it took to produce the panel. There is a huge problem with disposal of dead panels, batteries and wind turbines. Nuclear and hydroelectric are really the best alternatives but natural gas and coal are the best back-ups.
I designed my little solar array on the barn for 10KW and it will not power the house for normal demand rates even though I can return some power to the grid. My point is that there is a huge difference in average power consumption and peak power consumption. It is a wonder the national power grid works at all with massive generation capacity, let alone with a bunch of candy ass solar panels and batteries.
Solar will not power a modern society such as ours. If solar is the only alternative we will have to seriously pare our life style or spend unrealistic sums of money to do it.
I always marvel that these acres of solar panels and bird chopping wind turbines never seem to get the same environmental scrutiny that any other project of this size seem to be given. Imagine you proposed a project were bald eagles would routinely be killed in its operation. There would be protests, lawsuits and decades of red tape all likely killing the project. Covering acres of ground with solar panels certainly must disrupt the habitat of insects, birds and small critters some of which are likely a threatened species so where are the protests, lawsuits and endless red tape?