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re: 1600 Acre Solar Farm coming to St. Landry Parish
Posted on 4/25/23 at 12:40 pm to AliBahBah54
Posted on 4/25/23 at 12:40 pm to AliBahBah54
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What about the accepted design considerations of the local wind code?
Typically when the IE comes in they're going to recommend going bigger and its up to the investors to enforce that or juts let it ride. Typically the tax equity investor will make them take the more conservative route.
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Posted on 4/25/23 at 2:30 pm to Korkstand
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I am not in the industry but I doubt they will fill those gaps. My guess is it's a combination of airflow (panels produce more when cooler), ease of installation and maintenance, cost of land, production required, etc.
Yeah, just a simple dumb guess would be to have lanes big enough for trucks/tractors to keep surface soil maintained and weed-free, and to haul the solar equipment.
Posted on 4/25/23 at 2:46 pm to member12
Those solar farms are ugly compares to fields and forest and I think a waste of acreage.
I know some a couple of landman types that have switched from buying pipeline right of ways to buying up ROWs for solar farms. One project was proposed where the Haynesville fracking was and those folks are not too interested in the solar money because they are still living so well off the fracking money.
I know some a couple of landman types that have switched from buying pipeline right of ways to buying up ROWs for solar farms. One project was proposed where the Haynesville fracking was and those folks are not too interested in the solar money because they are still living so well off the fracking money.
Posted on 4/25/23 at 2:49 pm to SlickRick55
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Yeah, just a simple dumb guess would be to have lanes big enough for trucks/tractors to keep surface soil maintained and weed-free, and to haul the solar equipment.
Don’t know this was a factor, but it also reduces the mirror/blinding reflection that pilots complain about.
Posted on 4/25/23 at 2:59 pm to billjamin
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It's all taken up front in a tax credit.
So the people are paying for this energy twice.
Posted on 4/25/23 at 3:24 pm to Korkstand
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We need jobs, of course, but spending time producing things like food and energy which are immediately consumed and gone is a sort of wasteful way to spend our time. These things just sustain us, they don't directly create new value or wealth. We grow wealth by automating repetitive tasks like this and creating things of value instead.
Wow. Such great thinking in this one.
Posted on 4/25/23 at 3:36 pm to member12
whatever keeps farmers away from farm land and nature away from capturing carbon i guess
Posted on 4/25/23 at 4:32 pm to Masterag
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So the people are paying for this energy twice.
Kind of, but that's not any different than any other type of energy or Bucees.
Posted on 4/25/23 at 4:36 pm to Rize
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m worried about when the funding runs out and I’m left with a few hundred acres of Solar panels.
I’d be damn near dead by the end of the agreement. In the wrong state of mind I might say “frick everybody but me” and just walk away with the half mill a year.
Posted on 4/25/23 at 4:37 pm to deathvalleytiger10
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Wow. Such great thinking in this one.
I think his point is that we shouldn't prioritize less reliable forms of energy generation for the sake of jobs. That's like saying we should want our cars to be less reliable so mechanics don't go out of work.
Posted on 4/25/23 at 4:39 pm to billjamin
As an oilfield baw, do not waste your time trying to explain your profession to people who do not understand the engineering and regulations behind it all. They are too simple minded to be persuaded.
With that being said, solar is terribly inefficient and 1 natural gas well can produce the same amount of energy from 1 acre of surface that 20,000 solar panels can. Bye-Bye Solar boy.
With that being said, solar is terribly inefficient and 1 natural gas well can produce the same amount of energy from 1 acre of surface that 20,000 solar panels can. Bye-Bye Solar boy.
Posted on 4/25/23 at 4:43 pm to LSUballs
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There's a 3,000 acre one being built by my house. On some of the best ag land in the world. It's asinine.
Then I know pretty close to where you live. My company which builds pipelines and facilities in the O&G business got into this construction market called Renewables early last year. There is probably no end in sight for this, along with carbon capture. I have been hearing about this project up there in NE LA for a few months and just hearing about the name knew that there was going to be some damn fine ag ground that would be sacrificed with this project. What is sad, is that there is some fine arse hunting spots that will bite the dust over this all in the name of the all mighty dollar.
Posted on 4/25/23 at 4:46 pm to deathvalleytiger10
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Wow. Such great thinking in this one.
Such high powered thought it apparently flies right over the heads of some of you.
The only reason we aren't all hunters and gatherers or farmers is because we are always trying to produce more with less labor. And we've been successful. The ideal end is we produce as much food as we need, no more and no less, with as few man-hours as possible. The same goes for energy. The ideal is to produce as much energy as we need, no more and no less, with as few man-hours as possible.
Complaining that a new type of power plant doesn't require enough labor is like complaining that a new farming method doesn't require enough labor. It's backwards and counter-productive.
Posted on 4/25/23 at 4:48 pm to member12
They want to lease a chunk of my land on my ranch for one of these solar farms. They want an initial 6 year lease paying $1200 per acre a year but want the option to continue it to 30 years. I’ve been seriously considering it since I don’t get back home to Louisiana as often as i would like to anymore and it’s basically free extra income for land that isn’t vital to the cattle.
Posted on 4/25/23 at 5:01 pm to RaginRampage
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Bye-Bye Solar boy.
I do way more O&G dev than renewable. But, look at total energy produced over it's life and things start to levelize. Especially once you consider all the midstream and downstream needed for the O&G.
This post was edited on 4/25/23 at 5:03 pm
Posted on 4/25/23 at 5:03 pm to MWP
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What is sad, is that there is some fine arse hunting spots that will bite the dust
What’s sad is that there will be honest, hardworking farmers losing their livelihood.
Posted on 4/25/23 at 5:06 pm to stewie
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What’s sad is that there will be honest, hardworking farmers losing their livelihood.
Those farmers are going to make way more pimping the land out for a solar farm than they ever would have farming it.
Posted on 4/25/23 at 5:10 pm to nolatiger711
quote:im no expert but those things get hot so its most likely they need the space to help them keep cool
Seems like they can fit a lot more in that picture. Do they phase things up and add in between as they grow?
it does seem big enough tpo add another row down the middle, but that is how they make the money, and businesses like money, so im betting there is a real reason they cant have anything there
Posted on 4/25/23 at 5:18 pm to billjamin
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Those farmers are going to make way more pimping the land out for a solar farm than they ever would have farming it.
Most farmers lease land in LA.
Posted on 4/25/23 at 5:22 pm to stewie
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Most farmers lease land in LA.
I didn't realize that.
Land owners stacked, renters fricked.
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