Posted on 11/28/2020 5:15:32 PM PST by marshmallow
Parishioners of St. Francis of Assisi gathered this week to celebrate something their Catholic church now has in common with the Vatican: home-grown solar electricity.
The church arranged for a Durham company to install 216 solar panels on the roof of its fellowship hall. The panels are expected to generate 95,000 kilowatt hours of electricity a year, enough to light, heat and cool the building and knock $7,000 off its annual power bill.
But saving money wasn’t the church’s primary goal. As parishioners held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday afternoon, Trevor Thompson, the church’s director of justice and peace, cited Pope Francis’ call to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to reduce climate change and protect God’s creation.
“He said the climate crisis requires decisive action here and now, and the church is fully committed to playing her part,” Thompson said. “In this spirit of decisive action, we gather today to celebrate another step our parish is taking to care for our common home.”
(Excerpt) Read more at amp.newsobserver.com ...
iow — they raided the donation coffers to invest in something that will take 20 years to pay for.
It won’t pay off. Solar panels decrease in efficiency almost immediately, with it only being noticable after about eight years.
**********
But saving money wasn’t the church’s primary goal. As parishioners
held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday afternoon, Trevor Thompson,
the church’s director of justice and peace, cited Pope Francis’ call
to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to
reduce climate change and protect God’s creation.
Feeding the poor? No.
Clothing the naked? No.
Sheltering the homeless? No.
Educating the children and illiterate? No.
Overspending on a solar farm that won’t even power the church to virtue signal? Yes.
Do they have any idea now much energy and how polluting the manufacture of these clean energy solar panels is?
When you look at the picture of the building on Google Earth, the ridge line of the building is almost due north and south. The solar panels lie on each side of the ridge, on a fairly shallow slope. This is about the worst possible orientation for a fixed solar panel. Ideal would be on the south side of an east west ridge on a fairly steep sloped roof. Someone got sold on a really bad deal here. Only a small fraction of the sunlight ON A BRIGHT SUNNY DAY will actually be received by the panels.
Awwwww....isn’t that so sweet.
So becoming of them to be so concerned about the....environment. /s
Talk about losing your way.
What it really means is they will continue to use fossil fuel generated power from the grid, but they will get a credit for the solar power the electric utility company is forced to buy from them. Otherwise they would have no utility bill, and no power on cloudy days.
[[[Trevor Thompson,
the church’s director of justice and peace]]]
LOL
Can you post a link to the map or location ?
lat/long ?
Went to that Church on Christmas.
Granddaughter said she didn’t understand the sermon. Neither did I.
New age crap. No meaning of Christmas or Jesus.
I think he started talking about a movie star or something.
A priest trying to be popular and hip.
They used to have an active community that helped people. Don’t know if they still do.
But I can’t stand the idea of spending money to virtue signal instead of helping people.
11401 Leesville Rd, Raleigh, NC 27613
35.918995, -78.739195
11401 Leesville Rd, Raleigh, NC 27613
35.918995, -78.739195
I see a number of rooftops where trees over hang especially with the sun lower in the south sky.
Oh, the terror of cutting the trees down! And if you don’t cut or trim a sizable portion of trees you are forever wasting more $$$ in the project.
Shading is almost 100% when it comes to energy production.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.