Posted on 01/21/2023 10:12:28 AM PST by CFW
The media have been largely silent on a Biden administration energy project that one conservationist said would be "armageddon" for public lands. It’s a far cry from how reporters covered similar proposals under former president Donald Trump.
In December 2022, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced that her department would expedite plans to build solar energy farms on up to 100 million acres of untouched public land in five Western states, in a bid to "tackle climate change." The announcement has garnered little to no national attention, save for the occasional report that the Biden administration is expanding renewable energy production.
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All to fuel immigration.
We will have to make America an industrial wasteland to accept the endless population importation the left desires.
America had all the population it needed in 1970, and a very nice balance of nature to population.
Build nuclear plants! Solar and wind won’t cut it.
Enrich Chinaman and Emperor FJB, screw the public, kill the birds! Yeah!
I don’t believe your math is correct. There are 640 acres to a square mile. 100 million acres is 156250 square miles. that is a square that is 395 miles on a side. That makes me think that there is something wrong with the initial article. Something is off by a factor of 1000.
Oh yeah. They are a mess on many levels
New some of California? Ridiculous
There will no longer be ‘public use’ of that land.
100 million acres of solar panels? Will that be visible from space?
And a very nice ratio of native-born to foreign-born that sustained American civic virtue. Plus immigration was merit based. You got to come here if you could be a good citizen and contribute.
Thank you. You are right. I thought it felt low and off. I don’t know how I screwed up that simple calc.
The bottom line is you need about 1% of that land to build conventional, low-cost, highly reliable fossil plants that can run 24x7.
Highly diffuse sunlight is a stupid way to make utility-scale power.
For comparison, all of Arizona is 156,000 sq miles. They are going to gobble up 1.4 Arizonas.
And how much does it cost to drill that 6+ mile deep hole?
Sorry, no deal.....build nukes.
JFK ran on a platform of chain migration, which put immigrants in charge of immigration, at the same time the dems switched from white to non-white immigration.
Naturally, in time the border would come to be meaningless to the new population since they desire to replace the natives and their vote is what drives Dem politics and American immigration policy, and increasingly, our foreign policy.
“In 1965, Congress passed the Immigration and Nationality Act, which did away with quotas based on nationality and allowed Americans to sponsor relatives from their countries of origin. As a result of this act and subsequent legislation, the nation experienced a shift in immigration patterns. Today, the majority of U.S. immigrants come from Asia and Latin America rather than Europe.”
I was enthusiastic about a huge solar energy installation done in Spain some years ago. It required huge government funding and subsidies, but the pro arguments assured the world that the subsidies would soon be ended as the plant paid for itself. You probably saw pictures of it in some movies
However, the rosy future didn’t pan out. The investment in a large plat backfired. Subsidies would have continued into the indefinite future. So Spain pulled the plug on what was the first huge solar energy installation.
Water is “absolutely clean”
Wrong. Water from the earth contains huge amounts of highly corrosive dissolved salts and minerals. Dealing with the concentrated brines is a challenge. It’s not insurmountable, but a serious problem (lots of geothermal plants are running around the world).
Better question...why is FedGov the largest land owner in the nation?
“Progressivism” once there is nothing remaining of the old extreme Left that is extreme to the Left anymore is the madness of the ages, heaped up and tamped down so no lucid thought can remain.
Public lands for solar farms is no different conceptually than public lands for grazing. So, leasing public lands is not actually snatching them. The reason they are public is because no one actually has a use for them
If you believe in solar then Nevada or Arizona public lands is the place to be
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