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“So you’re cool with clearing out nuisance farm fields and forests and prairies and replacing the living organism with solar panels for your Tesla.

Good to know.”

Did you even read the report? Panels increase yields for crops and animals grown under them. It’s not clearing out anything. It also gives the land owner a second and large by $ per acre income stream. Don’t be ignorant reading and comprehension skills are not hard.

Panels are not for row crops obviously and no one says rip up forests like you know the Brazilians do by the millions of hectares per year for cattle range land.

For steep and cattle the grass does better under the semishade of the panels and so do the animals. It’s noh either or it’s both and again the rancher would be getting tens of thousands per acre in energy sales on top of increased meat yield on the animals. Just because you don’t llike something doesn’t mean it is not a good idea and a profitable one at that.

Texas was 48% solar power for the whole ERCOT grid yesterday at noon with 40-48 for the while middle of the day. The wholesale cost was $10-15 per megawatt hour that’s 1-1.5 cents per kWh so cheap gas turbines shut down you could see the near vertical fall off of much more expensive gas power as the sun came up.

Then last night wind came roaring on it was 60% of the grid at 0400 and from 2100 till then it was 50%+ the cost range was $10 to NEGARIVE $3 at 0400 that means ERCOT has so much surplus wind they were paying people to take it.

So Texas had the cheapest power by far out of any state over the last two days. And 60% of that was wind/solar.

My Teslas plural charge off panels in the roof above them. Yes there are panels on poles in the larger yard those are for sale to ERCOT. if I covered my 8 acres of hay are exempt behind the houses with panels that would generate 2 megawatts worth of power and still grow hay or grass under them better than just being in the open turns out. I would have to move to using sheep or goats or cows vs tractors for the hay harvest as the poles get in the way of the tractor or go to a smaller tractor that fits under the panels and go from large round to small square bails. I don’t care as it’s all for the ag exempt my neighbor uses his tractor and takes a 50% cut.

2 megawatts would be $4 to $250 per hour or more peak rates avg is $50 per MWh we get 220 days of sun 8 acres of panels would cross $100000+ in power sales per year just sitting over grass already growing and hay is worth next to nothing compared to that. Just filling in the rest of the two acre homesite would get my system above 500kw vastly more than my homes could use. For the small land owner solar is an ally not an enemy you have it backwards.