Posted on 10/16/2022 7:12:05 AM PDT by rktman
The hype about wind and solar energy keeps colliding with the hard reality of land-use conflicts. Nowhere is that more obvious than in Ohio, where 41 townships have rejected or restricted the expansion of wind and/or solar projects since last November. In addition, at least eight Ohio counties have implemented restrictions on Big Wind and Big Solar over that same time period.
The soaring number of rejections – all of which are documented in the Renewable Rejection Database – brings the total number of solar rejections in the U.S. this year to 67. That total includes the October 12 unanimous vote by the Linn County, Iowa, Board of Supervisors to implement a moratorium on solar projects in their county. In all, since 2017, 94 communities across the U.S. have rejected or restricted Big Solar.
Wind projects are also facing fierce resistance, particularly in Ohio, a swing state that is critical to presidential candidates. Thus far in 2022, 46 local governments, 40 of which are in Ohio, have rejected or restricted wind projects. Furthermore, since 2015, 370 communities from Maine to Hawaii have rejected or restricted wind projects.
As I have noted in many previous articles, these hundreds of rejections are routinely ignored by big media outlets. Further, they don’t square with the schemes being promoted by academics from Princeton, Stanford, and other elite universities who routinely claim that the U.S. can build thousands of megawatts of new solar and wind capacity in rural America and do so in just a few years. But the facts cannot be denied.
Here is the lowdown on what’s happening in Ohio. On August 23, the Ohio Capitol Journal reported that “At least 10 Ohio counties have passed resolutions blocking the development of new utility-scale wind and solar projects within all or part........
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Climate change blight.
I’m gonna guess that the Harvard Campus is not sustainable.
I needs to be turned into a sheep pasture.
With 100% of the far lefties going into the “Full Woke” flatulence mode, you’d would expect the Big Wind device manufactures to be selling a lot of their machines.
Yeah, pretty sure having a degree from ‘havahad’ doesn’t mean what it used to mean.
Low income housing for illegal immigrants.
Some good news on a Sunday morning !
Maybe we should deliver all of the dead windmills to California to be buried on ‘their’ land. Few people realize that they eventually wear out and must be buried somewhere.
Forcing society to use technology thats no where near ready to take up the slack of plentiful, reliable energy is insane.
But there’s alot of that going around lately.
Destroying the landscape and agricultural resources, all for “thousands of megawatts” of energy. These people have no concept of the energy budget of the United States. “Thousands of megawatts” would be a spit in the ocean of energy provided by fossil fuels and used in the US annually.
No, let Harvard turn their campus into a solar farm. Likewise the campuses of all the other Ivies and any other ivory towers who think this crap is a good idea.
Check this Gulf of Mexico proposal out:
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/07/22/texas-gulf-of-mexico-wind-farm/
Figures out about the same as the 30 million acre proposal of it taking about 2 and a half acres per home to power. Why yes Virginia, these people are idiots. But at least it’s 24 miles off shore so just the tip will show.
The bearings wear out and cannot economically be replaced. And the bigger the windmill, the sooner it will fail. So much for the monster offshore deals these dreamers fantasize about. But the scammers will have taken their money and run long before that happens.
How well do they hold up in hurricanes?
The real environmental destruction of “renewables” is ignored.
The cost of “wind” is rising rapidly, because manufacturing a windmill is extremely energy intensive in steel, cement and minerals, and the energy-return is very far below oil or gas
The same is true of solar, and moreover, the solar supply-chain is almost completely controlled by China - who is still increasing coal-energy output. The land on which solar farms are built must literally be poisoned with herbicides, to keep anything from growing up and around the solar panels.
“The hype about wind and solar energy keeps colliding with the hard reality of land-use conflicts. Nowhere is that more obvious than in Ohio, where 41 townships have rejected or restricted the expansion of wind and/or solar projects since last November. In addition, at least eight Ohio counties have implemented restrictions on Big Wind and Big Solar over that same time period.”
Just demand nuclear. Watch the heads on the left explode.
“all for “thousands of megawatts” of energy.”
Megawatts is a unit of power. Mw-hours is a unit if energy.
First time I’m learning about this.
I guess because IT IS REALLY GOOD NEWS TO THE VAST MAJORITY WHO KNOW CLIMATE IS NOT...NOT CHANGING.
I’m impressed and happy.
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