re: 1600 Acre Solar Farm coming to St. Landry Parish

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I don’t even get food stamps it’s messed up

I shoulda voted for Hillary like you soylar guys

You're right. Everything is. Nothing is more heavily subsidized than green energy in 2023. Nothing to do with green energy, especially the money flowing through it, has anything to do with capitalism.

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Nothing is more heavily subsidized than green energy in 2023.

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Do you really believe this?

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I know of one thing that’s more subsidized than green energy but you get banned if you say it

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Politards paying OnlyFans girls isn't really a subsidy.

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The nature of advancement needn’t be forced by government under a false pretense of going green to save the planet, professor.

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How does your claim of it being "regressive" come in, professor?

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An example of an actual renewable resource is wood fiber not a Chinese-made solar panel.

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My god you're dumb.

Sunlight is "renewable" in the sense that we can't run out of it. But perhaps "renewable" isn't the best term because, unlike wood, we don't have to input any energy in order to renew it. It's not renewable, it's better than that. It's unlimited in the practical sense.

As for the panels themselves (which don't have to be chinese but of course they are kicking our asses here), they are technology used to harness the renewable resource. Just like every single other resource that we use, supporting gear is required. Don't conflate the resource with the infrastructure. And just like with every other resource and raw material, as markets shake out recycling panels will become more economical and we are already seeing that happen.

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That's going to shift over the next few years. There's a ton of PV module manufacturing coming to the US to take advantage of the IRA adders for US made modules.

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That's good to hear. What about batteries (lithium or other)?

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Sunlight is "renewable" in the sense that we can't run out of it. But perhaps "renewable" isn't the best term because, unlike wood, we don't have to input any energy in order to renew it. It's not renewable, it's better than that. It's unlimited in the practical sense.

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Until it’s cloudy.

It is a “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” deal for me. So answer this: Why does the US specifically, absolutely have to transition to “renewable” green energy ASAP when we possess enough hydrocarbon energy sources to sustain for a century? Two centuries? And why is the US the only country that has to meet such a goal?

China is kicking our arse because they understand diesel and coal exhaust is not going to destroy the planet.

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Until it’s cloudy.

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I love it when folks suggest that we can't depend on the sun.

Everybody knows that sunlight is intermittent, but we also know that long-term averages are extremely predictable for every location on the planet. The storage requirement calculation is simple.

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It is a “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” deal for me.

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There are different levels of brokenness. Advances are made because some recognize what's broken where most don't.

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So answer this: Why does the US specifically, absolutely have to transition to “renewable” green energy ASAP when we possess enough hydrocarbon energy sources to sustain for a century? Two centuries?

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Because if we don't then in a couple decades China will be top dog by a lot.

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And why is the US the only country that has to meet such a goal?

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We are nowhere near the only country with these goals. We don't even have close to the most aggressive goals. Also I don't even think we're in the top 25 as far as progress toward renewables. You folks have a really warped sense of reality.

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China is kicking our arse because they understand diesel and coal exhaust is not going to destroy the planet.

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China is kicking our arse because they see the writing on the wall. Thanks to initiatives and subsidies from a variety of countries over the last 40+ years, and also thanks to the nature of technology, the cost/watt of solar has fallen incredibly fast. I mean you know it's hundreds of times cheaper today than it was in 1980, right? And like half the cost of 10 years ago? Plenty in here are saying solar is only competitive due to government subsidies. What's it like 30%? So solar is already within 30% competitive with O&G? Do you think these remarkably steady cost decreases will stop now, or do you think this 4+ decade trend might continue for a few more years?

China knows it will continue. They will make damned sure that it does. In 10 years they will have energy so cheap that their dominance in other industries will accelerate.