Fighting 'Solar Farm' Installation

[Chewwy]

. . . Build nuke plants, put the powerlines underground . . .

Large nuclear plants are not cheap to build or operate and their is no long term solution to high level radwaste storage. In the U.S., spent nuclear fuel is typically stored on site. France and some other countries reprocess their spent fuel, which has its own risks and costs, but it doesn’t just kick the can down the road.

Placing distribution lines (high voltage) and transmission lines (very high voltage) underground is theoretically possible, but unlikely to ever be anything but prohibitably expensive. High voltage requires substantial separation between phases and neutral, meaning extremely large tunnels would be required to contain them.

 

[turbo36]

Uh-oh... fact check.

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How many birds are killed from wind turbines and other sources?

Statistics on bird deaths including wind turbines, fossil fuels, and cats.

www.freeingenergy.com

Simular studies.

Wind Power and Birds

Properly sited wind power can help protect birds from climate change.

www.audubon.org

Wind turbines and birds and bats

Estimates of up to a million or more birds a year are killed by turbines in the US but that is far exceeded by collisions with communications towers (6.5 million); power lines, (25 million); windows (300 million); and cats (1.4 to 3.7 billion) and those lost due to habitat loss, pollution and...

www.sierraclub.org

 

[Sigarms]

Wind turbines and solar panels help reduce global warming and are beneficial to all animals including polar bears. More love than a Subaru commercial.

 

[MossRoad]

That's a long post...

 

[Paul_M]

Some people have got together in one of our communities and are planning on installing a huge multi-acre solar farm on property adjacent to my daughter's and sister-in-law's property. They will be surrounded to the north and south of their properties and across the road. Their property value will go to nearly nothing.

Has anybody fought the installation of one of these?

Any ideas?

RSKY

There was a county administration that banned solar farms from the entire county in the news a couple of weeks ago. Seems like it was in Kentucky or Tennessee. I agree it's a pity when good arable land is dedicated to non-farm uses. However, the reasons usually given to oppose solar projects strike me as flimsy at best. The real enemy is corporate farming and its effects on small farms. These solar projects can allow many aging farmers to keep their land instead of selling it to developers who convert it to housing tracts and warehouse distribution centers and such. The opposition to solar farms here was full of predictions of declining land values and roadside eyesores, but neither has happened. 10 years later, no one even thinks much about it. Actually, the power companies still don't like it, and for obvious reasons.

 

[Yanmar J]

Some people have got together in one of our communities and are planning on installing a huge multi-acre solar farm on property adjacent to my daughter's and sister-in-law's property. They will be surrounded to the north and south of their properties and across the road. Their property value will go to nearly nothing.

Has anybody fought the installation of one of these?

Any ideas?

RSKY

Friend of mine in New York had a wind farm put up some wind powered towers. Even though he is really far from them he can see the windmills so the power company pays him so much a month because it takes away from his nature view. It has been a long time since I talked to him so I can't tell you how much or any other details.
John

 

[Paul_M]

The math is pretty easy, even with the increased lifespan of these panels now days, without government subsidies no one would try to mass produce electricity with solar. Highly inefficient, pretty high cost to get into, can be high monthly maint (cleaning dust/snow/ice/bird crap). Can you make pennies? Yes. Can you make dollars? Probably not.

Your "knowledge" is a bit out of date.

 

[turbo36]

Wind turbines and solar panels help reduce global warming and are beneficial to all animals including polar bears. More love than a Subaru commercial.

I was thinking more fun than a Bud Light commercial!

 

[sea2summit]

Your "knowledge" is a bit out of date.

Cool, how much were you subsidized?

 

[Sigarms]

I was thinking more fun than a Bud Light commercial!

I'm not so certain about that...They don't make them like they use to LOL