Submitted by CurseMeKilt t3_1151zwi in UpliftingNews
sault18 t1_j92u8kp wrote
Reply to comment by Yourbubblestink in Over 25 GW of solar is actively being constructed in the U.S. by CurseMeKilt
You are absolutely lying about what these projects are doing:
"Syncarpha’s 7-MW project in Old Town will be leasing land from the city to construct an array on Dewitt Airfield. This land, currently vacant, unused and untaxed and with little agricultural value, will now be a stream of rental income for the city over the next 20-years.
In Readfield, Syncarpha and a property owner struck an unusual agreement, whereby the owner will put approximately 75 of 95 acres into conservation. The remaining acreage will be leased to Syncarpha for the construction and operation of a community solar farm.
The power generated by this array will benefit households in the same utility “load zone,” ensuring that the land is not subject to permanent commercial development. After the operational life of the solar farm, equipment will be removed and the portion used for solar will be put into conservation as well.
Syncarpha has purchased rocky land located next to a highway in Augusta to build a solar farm, but will not develop the entire parcel. The project is donating approximately 10 acres of woodlands to the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine, its largest sportsman’s organization, for the alliance’s outdoor education center."
"Five years in the making, the 152-megawatt solar farm is one of many ongoing renewable energy projects geared toward meeting Maine’s statutory target of 80-percent clean energy by 2030.
The land is owned by Bessey Development Co., a Hinckley-based, family-owned wood brokerage company, and has been in the Bessey family for more than five generations. Most of the land was previously used for commercial timber harvesting, and some of it was used by a tenant farmer to grow corn.
In compliance with the state’s conservation policies to reduce environmental effects, the company has conserved 1,875 acres — including 1,020 acres in what’s called the Unity Wetlands Focus Area, 324 acres in Readfield and 531 acres in Shirley."
Yourbubblestink t1_j92vl11 wrote
Drive by a couple and check in with yourself after see if you feel the same way? - a Google Searches don’t really do it Justice - so ugly and unnatural. Maine getting covered with them because land is relatively cheap
sault18 t1_j92vs4q wrote
No, they're conserving more land than they're actually using for these things. A lot of the land isn't even forrested to begin with like you're trying to make people believe. And some of this supposedly forested land is actually for Timber production, not entirely Greenfield areas. So you're leaving out a lot of the story and it's clear you have an agenda that you're trying to push. People aren't buying it.
Yourbubblestink t1_j92x32k wrote
My only agenda is that I’ve driven by a few and been surprised by the industrial scale and ugliness of it. More will come as land is cheap and people are underemployed here
Tobias_Atwood t1_j95172t wrote
You can think they're ugly all you want. If that's your only reason for not liking them you're still foolish.
You'll dislike the look of that land even more when human induced climate change sets it all on fire or drowns it in horrific floods.
Yourbubblestink t1_j95gd02 wrote
Clearly you haven’t driven by any
Tobias_Atwood t1_j95heub wrote
I've driven by plenty of petroleum and coal related power plants and production facilities and I'd be so happy if they all got replaced by solar farms.
If your biggest problem with solar panels is the aesthetics you got serious issues the internet can't solve for you.
Yourbubblestink t1_j95i8m7 wrote
Yes they are hideous and industrial - destroying the landscape,
Tobias_Atwood t1_j95rfil wrote
Well I'm glad we're in agreement on installing more solar. Coal and oil fuck up the place too much to ignore.
Make way for beautiful solar to preserve the land and make the world green.
Yourbubblestink t1_j95rpd3 wrote
Also the windmills. Wow. Nobody mentioned that those involve clear cutting mountain tops
Tobias_Atwood t1_j95sa9h wrote
Gotta put them where the wind is. I guess that isn't obvious to you...
We can also plant more trees. That might also not be obvious to you...
Yourbubblestink t1_j95sijh wrote
Not on top of the mountains. I get the energy lol behind the wind and solar movements, but I really don’t think we’ve spent enough time talking about the environmental impact. They are really ugly. Really ugly.
Tobias_Atwood t1_j95tdb6 wrote
We've been talking about the environmental impact for literal decades. Fossil fuels gotta go or we're all gonna die. Slowly. Horribly. Agonizingly. Stretched out over decades and centuries as the planet becomes a thick hot morass of death and decay.
Anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool or a liar. Possibly both.
You can think renewables are ugly all you want, but I don't care. I'll bury everything you ever look at in solar panels. From here on out until the day the sun fucking dies I hope the only thing you ever see again is solar panels.
Yourbubblestink t1_j95xnv7 wrote
Hey, that’s cool. I don’t really get your rage/emotion, but whatever. I would really encourage you to go see one in real life sometime.
Electrical-Bed8577 t1_j9o8hqq wrote
Review available designs and recommend them to your politicians.
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Electrical-Bed8577 t1_j9o82e0 wrote
It isn't normally involved. It was noted as necessary due to decimation by infestation. Where there is a wind path you will typically see an opening of the trees. Check with your local forest service and politicians. Reports were filed. Please look into what is really happening to the forests due to climate change related infestation in North America. It's a viscious cycle. https://www.nature.org/en-us/newsroom/pests-pathogens-threats-forests-climate/
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