Choice: food or solar fields

[Citydude]

We use an In-situ type of mining for uranium here that was developed in Texas in the 70's.

Wyoming State Geological Survey

Welcome to the Wyoming State Geological Survey.

www.wsgs.wyo.gov

 

[LHF2019]

Solar actually does work on cloudy days, it’s just not as efficient. Gas will be an important part of the energy picture for awhile.

How efficient when snow covered? Going to need sun to melt the panels correct or do they self heat. I am all for putting them on roofs or whatever. But to take over large tracks of open ground, well.....................................I can't but those thoughts on here.

 

[Hay Dude]

“Solar [works] on cloudy days”…..
So it’s kind of like having an NG or Nuke plant and turning down it’s output to 10%.
And this happens frequently because it’s dark roughly 1/2 of every day and of the remaining days, it could be cloudy some of the time, or perhaps snow covered panels.
And we get to deface open meadows with thousands of acres of them AND they’re made in China?
Yippee
Sign me up.

 

[LD48750]

Why not build solar farms over the ocean under wind farms?

 

[Hay Dude]

Why not build solar farms over the ocean under wind farms?

People who are pro-solar or pro-wind should be first in line to offer-up their back yard or rooftop.
Also weary of city types pushing their green agenda solar panels & wind mills on fly-over country people.
Its always “Their ideas & our inconvenience”.

 

[Egon]

The coming change in energy sources is inevitable!

Solar viability and storage?
Take a look at Drakes Landing. Solar based community with ground storage system For heat. It’s been in operation for a few years. It works.

Drake Landing Solar Community

 

[jyoutz]

Its a territorial thing for sure. For example, The Southwest is less populated, has many more days of sun and probably more wind. Put the wind & solar farms there, where they work.
In the Northeast, where it’s densely populated, more cloudy and the winds are lower, build gas & nuke plants. We have abundant Marcellas gas and already have lots of nuke plants ready for retooling.

I assume that gas plants are already being built? The issue with nuclear power is that no states are volunteering to build and house the waste disposal areas.

 

[jyoutz]

People who are pro-solar or pro-wind should be first in line to offer-up their back yard or rooftop.
Also weary of city types pushing their green agenda solar panels & wind mills on fly-over country people.
Its always “Their ideas & our inconvenience”.

Lots of people have rooftop solar. The power companies make the business decisions on where to buy and lease lands for their operations, not proponents.

 

[Hay Dude]

Lots of people have rooftop solar. The power companies make the business decisions on where to buy and lease lands for their operations, not proponents.

Oh yeah?! lol You don’t think politics doesnt play a heavy hand in who/where/what gets used for power generation?
Keep dreamin‘

 

[Raul-02]

Has anyone plugged into the equation what happens when after 2035 only electric new cars will be available?

there is a corporation in the UK that has nuclear Fusion plants on the drawing boards that have a real-world route to cheap as hell nuclear fusion (not fission) power.
Skipping the lasers, the super-magnets, the particle accelerators they figured a way to accelerate a bit of tritium or deuterium to about 200 times the speed of sound to hit another particle the energy fuses the two. one impact of a tiny little bit ( a few grams) of material will power an average home for two years. Their plants will do one such discharge every thirty seconds.
And they can do it cheap cheap c
heap

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