Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Considering 31 Million Acres of U.S. Public Lands for Solar Power Development

Power Magazine ^ | August 30, 2024 | Darrell Proctor

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

Meanwhile, other Globull Climate Hoax wackos are pushing seeding the atmosphere to increase clouds. So...... More cloud cover for the solar energy????

[Paladin2]

I see no shortage of hail beat up vehicles in Deadwood, So. Dak.

It’s sad.

As before, my research indicates that Cheyenne, Wyo. is ~5x worse.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The locals are VERY worried about toxic elements leaching out of the broken panels into the soil. I don't know how serious of a concern that is, but many articles have been published the past decade about the enormous volume of waste that will come from decommissioned solar farms. One good article is Dark Side To Solar? More Reports Tie Panel Production To Toxic Pollution published in Forbes three years ago. Here's an excerpt about broken panels:

But the toxic nature of solar panels makes their environmental impacts worse than just the quantity of waste. Solar panels are delicate and break easily. When they do, they instantly become hazardous, and classified as such, due to their heavy metal contents. Hence, they are classified as hazardous waste. The authors note that this classification carries with it a string of expensive restrictions — hazardous waste can only be transported at designated times and via select routes, etc.

When I was doing field service engineering in industrial and utility plants in the 70s, I worked in a couple of plants that had been disassembled, shipped and reassembled at a new location. Conventional power plants are almost entirely made out of steel which is easily recycled. The value of the glass in used solar panels is zero!

[sasquatch]

Oh, who forgot about hail?

[Boardwalk]

Simple as that.

[SaxxonWoods]

They are going to kill millions of birds.

[SaxxonWoods]

BLM land is federal land and the federal govt is responsible for its care and use. It also sells parcels to the public from time to time. The common uses in the past have been mining and cattle grazing.

[Who is John Galt?]

'Available for leasing' NEVER EVER MEANS 'will be leased'. As others have pointed out, solar usually loses money if there are no government mandates or subsidies to support it, and that's without the added expense of extending the grid into every nook and cranny of the western US, to get the energy to market.

In short, only small portions of the 31 million acres would ever be developed, under the best of conditions.

[butlerweave]

Destroying 31 Million Acres of U.S. Public Lands

[ridesthemiles]

SNOW HAIL BURNING TREES?

RIGHT NOW-—THERE ARE MILLIONS OF ACRES YOU CANNOT EVEN RIDE A HORSE IN “BECAUSE YOU MIGHT DAMAGE THE ECO-SYSTEM”.

[SaxxonWoods]

RIGHT NOW-—THERE ARE MILLIONS OF ACRES YOU CANNOT EVEN RIDE A HORSE IN “BECAUSE YOU MIGHT DAMAGE THE ECO-SYSTEM”.

The same ecosystem that saw buffalos cover the land from horizon to horizon, herds that would take days to pass by.

[butlerweave]

The wind-farms offshore are already falling apart so fail on land now

[ridesthemiles]

IT takes FOSSIL FUELS TO EVEN CRETE GLASS IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!!

NEED 2200 degrees to melt the silica sand.

[ridesthemiles]

CREATE

AUTO CORRECT !!!!

[Tucker39]

Who is going to patrol those miles and police the theft of acres of solar panels and miles of copper wiring?

[Mariner]

I want to see the Impact Statement, and how far the environmental movement will debase themselves to say it’s OK.

[CivilWarBrewing]

I’m sure environmentalists will absolutely LOVE a solar panel covered planet. What an atrocity!

[CivilWarBrewing]

Look what one hail storm can do, ROFL!

[Openurmind]

Of course they are... Feinstein planned well...

[Bikkuri]

Or the next hail storm (I remember one that had baseball sized hail and killed cattle when I was young). I am sure that would destroy the panels.