The Chinese have been buying vast tracts of farmland in the United States and some legislators are trying to put a stop to the practice, but when not buying the land outright, they still take control of a lot of agricultural land when developers lease it from property owners and cover it with solar panels and related solar equipment made in China. From China to our … [Read more...]
Why Do You Think Solar Projects Are Suddenly Everywhere?
Robert Bryce, who has written several very good books on the topic of energy, just published an article explaining the massive increase in solar subsides being showered on the solar energy industry. It explains why we're seeing so many projects popping up almost everywhere. Throw money at an industry and a lot of people will jump in with their hands out. ... some of … [Read more...]
Government Support of Solar Energy is Really Solar Welfare
Let’s cut to the chase, most of us are tired of the government taking more and more money from taxpayers like you and me and giving it to whatever individuals or companies make the most noise, and that’s exactly what solar energy is, just one more big government welfare program. Solar Welfare Landowners signing leases for solar panel installations are simply doing the … [Read more...]
Promoting Grid Scale Solar Means Not Understanding How the Grid Works
This article cannot fully describe our electric grid, it would take a sizable technical book few of you would care to read, however, some believe they can improve the grid without having even a cursory understanding of what it is our how it works. Proponents of grid scale solar tend to be in that group, not the solar developers who build these massive installations, they … [Read more...]
Do You Know How Many Trees Are Going to be Removed?
It's always in the fine print. While looking over the drawings of the project layout, which is 35 pages long and each page is large with a lot of detail, I noticed a lot of areas covered in a crosshatch pattern. Looking closer, I saw small call-outs pointing to each of those areas and when I enlarged the page enough to make them readable, it would say something like "existing … [Read more...]
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