Posted on 09/08/2022 12:03:08 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Oh no...that doesn’t count. That is no 100% carbon neutral. They just have to do without if it’s cloudy.
Yes...it is very dusty here...and of course, we have lots of hail in the spring and sometimes in the fall. I can see such a solar farm being devastated by baseball or softball size hail (which is not uncommon) during the first or second spring this thing goes live.
This is not an air traffic control center, this is the main FAA training center for air traffic controllers and whatnot. They also oversee the ILS systems of all airports in the US at this location. Or they used to because my mother-in-law worked in that division before she retired.
unlikely. What will also happen before that timeframe has passed is the batteries that the panels feed will fail multiple times. Really good, long lasting batteries will last maybe 10 years. Maybe. So two expensive changes, and maybe more, in that 20-23 years. In other words, this will never pay for itself.
And when the solar panels go down and the planes crash?
Going to watch scenes from “Airplane” again, now.
The ROI doesn’t look good. Especially at night.
5.56mm
Exactly! From everything I have heard, panels for your home can be paid for over 20 years, at which point they cease to function very well. And, on top of that, we don’t know how to dispose of the old panels, full of dangerous chemicals that instantly pollute the groundwater. We might as well live with nuclear . . . unless my personal dream comes into being, harnessing the perpetual power of the ocean. There are some North Sea companies actually working on it.
Not even close
OK is north of the red River. Here in Texas we are sometimes jealous of the amount of rain that occurs in OK. But with that rain comes storms, and hail. Truth be told they have some dang serious storms in OK. Those solar panels will be damaged almost yearly. And the tornadoes will wipe out the wind towers.
This crap all goes away when the federal subsidy is canceled.
Just don’t fly at night...
And...
“20 to 23 years for the panels to pay for themselves”
They will NEVER pay for themselves. With a realistic full efficiency lifespan of 10 years they will need replaced and sent to a landfill. One good Oklahoma hailstorm will destroy them. I am off grid on full solar. I have NEVER seen a calculation that uses realistic information for solar panels. They are assumed to be 100% efficient with “solar hours” full sunny days at the latitude.
More paving over perfectly good dirt to waste more energy than will ever be returned. Who needs what can grow in the dirt, instead of concrete and black panels?
HAIL-——HAIL——
This just the “training facility building”.....
WHAT happens when all the Air Traffic Control TOWERS are solar????
That is our setting! Too good for the feds. They dont do nothing anyway.
They dont need ac or heat.
bump.
Enquiring minds?
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration will pay nearly $4 million for its largest solar-power project yet, updating an air-traffic control and training center in Oklahoma.
The agency said Thursday that the project will help it meet President Joe Biden’s order that government buildings use 100% carbon pollution-free electricity by 2030.
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