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Yes they are getting started. Started recycling the blades.
Your citation didn't say anything about where those will be built. Regular farms in the desert will be converted to solar- a better choice than growing water-intensive crops on that land. Only old white men thinks it's a good idea to grow strawberries and lettuce in the desert.If you read more carefully, I specifically said I was referring to future projects. As of 2020, wind/solar projects provide 13% of utility scale power in the US. With the government claiming that number will increase to 50% by 2030, it's obvious that many more of these abominations will be built in the next ten years.
The Biden administration and Democratic Congress are planning to pass new laws that give the industries billions in subsidies, an action unneeded if solar and wind are going to become widespread as its proponents proclaim.
This photo of Hanwha Energy's Unit 174 in Texas is a better example of my complaint. Hundreds of acres of native vegetation was bladed under to build it. To keep the area under the solar panels free of vegetation regrowth, it's a given that herbicides like glyphosate and 2,4,D are being heavily applied on the soil here and at every other solar farm.
Hanwha and French petroleum giant Total plan to build over a dozen of these solar farms, initiating the wholesale destruction of millions of acres of land now vacant or being farmed.
French refiner Total SE and South Korea’s Hanwha Energy Corp. have agreed to set up a joint venture to build solar power plants and storage centers in 12 US locations, in projects worth around 2 trillion won ($1.8 billion).
The 50:50 JV will build solar energy facilities with a combined power generation capacity of 1.6 gigawatts (GW) to provide electricity to 300,000 households annually in six US states, Total and Hanwha said in a joint statement on Jan. 14.
https://www.kedglobal.com/newsView/ked202101150004
That citation is nothing more than someplace to post opinions. Looking at the first page, it doesn't mention any projects nor where they will be built. That looks like the area around Palm Springs- those have been there for decades now, too.This photo clearly illustrates the desecration that turbines will visit on every ridgeline in the Southwest. As is typical across the country, none of the access roads to these several hundred turbines are paved. Little or no engineering was done when they were constructed, and where the roads pass small valleys on the mountain, no relief culverts have been installed.
Spoils from the grading of the roads is simply pushed into these valleys. These turbines will require blade replacement at some point in the near future. The heavy trucks that will haul them to the turbine base and the huge cranes that will lift them into place will further exacerbate the erosion of soil
Websites like this one trumpet the proliferation of "the dramatic growth of clean energy." There is no mention of environmental stewardship, just bromides about the "clean, renewable energy."
https://environmentamerica.org/feature/ame/renewables-rise-2020
Those are tax rates, not what people actually pay in those groups.If your premise of "that way with wars and stuff" is true, what that really means is the rich are subsidizing low energy costs for the lower income people.
Wars keep energy prices low -> Wars are funded by taxpayer money -> The rich pay the majority of taxes
So look at the bright side, Michael, without your supposed wars, many lower income people could not afford to drive!
Oh ****! throttle closed, ailerons level, yoke forward, rudder opposite of rotation...
The web is not the Internet. Doesn’t matter the carrier, HTTP, TCP/IP, SNMP, etc are still the same protocols used regardless of thedata stream.
Well....consider ARPANET. And DARPANET.
Gore voted for funding for the ‘net when he was in the Senate. That was his participation.
There is a solar farm newly built near one of my home airports and they mow the grass! Such modern technology has never been seen before and will certainly spread around the world like wildfire. This is in NY where plants actually grow fast, not like the desert where you barely have to mow them down once a year.
If your premise of "that way with wars and stuff" is true, what that really means is the rich are subsidizing low energy costs for the lower income people.
Wars keep energy prices low -> Wars are funded by taxpayer money -> The rich pay the majority of taxes
So look at the bright side, Michael, without your supposed wars, many lower income people could not afford to drive!
Oh ****! throttle closed, ailerons level, yoke forward, rudder opposite of rotation...
There's much better places to grow that stuff than in the desert. No water except what's imported in, or draw down the aquifer.
I respectfully disagree. The information on-line is whatever one cares to post, and there is a lot of garbage to sift through. Anything political gets a lot of disinformation from both sides. Some very wealthy people are alleged to pay no taxes. If that is true, and I'm not saying that it is, then the amount of tax people pay is somewhere between 0 and the rates in your citation. I've also heard that people at the bottom end of the scale are alleged to pay no taxes, either. I'm not trying to make it spin material, either, but it's difficult to find real facts.
So, what's wrong with that? You can make concrete from sand (silicates), or you can toss some fiberglass blades (also silicates) into the mix. The waste solvent from my lab is burned to make concrete, instead of using coal or oil to generate the heat. What's wrong with recycling the steel and copper machinery?
While I generally agree, there are sometimes good reasons for desert cultivation. Potatoes (I'm native to Idaho) are susceptible to blight if grown in wet climates. That's what caused the Irish potato famine in the late 1840's. But grow them in a dry climate, when the amount and timing of water applied can be carefully controlled, and it's not a problem. Sure, we also have fungicides now should they be needed, but controlling how much water is applied gets most of the credit for blight-free spuds.
Old propaganda dies hard!
According to Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf, it was a lot more than that:
Oh snap, I electric bicycle sometimes too. Is that doubly bad? Destroying the economy and destroying the planet. I should add a wind turbine to it so I can start charg
I'll bet that does not include the data from those individuals who are "currently" being audited by the IRS and won't release their true tax figures.....
I keep waiting for our leaders to say something about how they're going to make electricity production carbon-neutral, but if they have, I haven't run across it.
Lol
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what brought you to that conclusion?