Posted on 10/02/2022 12:56:24 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
— Anthony Grande moved away from Fort Myers three years ago in large part because of the hurricane risk. He has lived in southwest Florida for nearly 19 years, had experienced Hurricanes Charley in 2004 and Irma in 2017 and saw what stronger storms could do to the coast.
Grande told CNN he wanted to find a new home where developers prioritized climate resiliency in a state that is increasingly vulnerable to record-breaking storm surge, catastrophic wind and historic rainfall.
What he found was Babcock Ranch — only 12 miles northeast of Fort Myers, yet seemingly light years away.
Babcock Ranch calls itself “America’s first solar-powered town.” Its nearby solar array — made up of 700,000 individual panels — generates more electricity than the 2,000-home neighborhood uses, in a state where most electricity is generated by burning natural gas, a planet-warming fossil fuel.
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Yep. Exactly.
Where do they get their electricity when the sun doesn’t shine?
Not convincing me one bit to invest thousands or tens of thousands in it.
Will CNN talk about the solar panel efficacy or efficiency say when a blizzard hits or days long snow event occurs, for example? Highly doubt it.
Nothing more than agenda driven BS.
I really hate these lying sonsabitches.
From their Uranus
“Storms are getting bigger and bigger” he says, without evidence.
So no transmission and distribution lines connect solar panels, lines that hurricanes knock down?
So the solar panels themselves are immune to Cat 4 hurricane winds?
So solar panels make power at night?
What a steaming pantload of rubbish.
Even the majority of “green” Calicrazy gets the majority of it’s energy from burning natural gas. Only 1/3 from renewables.
This is not directed at you, it is directed at the lying sonsabitches.
Atmospheric CO2 follows global temperatures, it does not cause them.
The colder the oceans get, the more CO2 they can absorb.
When the oceans get warmer, they expel CO2
You can see the yearly fluctuation in the Mauna Loa graph as the ocean warms and cools with the seasons.
I am hesitant to believe that they didn’t have significant damage to their large amount of solar panels and issues with their other equipment.
““We have proof of the case now because [the hurricane] came right over us,” Nancy Chorpenning, a 68-year-old Babcock Ranch resident, told CNN. “We have water, electricity, internet — and we may be the only people in Southwest Florida who are that fortunate.”
Guess who they depend on for fire rescue, law enforcement and water sewer.
I’m sure for all that they are willing to turn a blind eye to all those evil gas guzzling ICE vehicles.
Solar panels survived but the homes were destroyed ?
So their cars are solar powered? Their grocery delivery?
Sure.
Would love to see a flyover of their panels/equipment, today.
700,000 individual panels
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How many, otherwise vegetated, acreage do they cover? How much wildlife habitat is lost to Chinese silicon? How big is their virtue signally effort? Do they all drive EVs costing $50-60K. And why should we care?
um... yea... move to an elevation where the storm surge doesn’t destroy you, you do better.
I’ve been there. BS is what it is.
Even if it is true, it doesn’t mean that the solar saved the community. It means that the community escaped the affects of the hurricane. If that picture, in the article, is of the community after Ian passed through, it becomes quite obvious that Ian missed it, miraculously.
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