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

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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.

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Here's my best stab at solving this solar farm conundrum, while still keeping every bit of established farm land for farming...

Interstate medians


Look at I-40 on Google maps as it crosses the entire nation. In most areas where it isn't crossing through a major city (and even some where it does), the median is about 60-100 yards wide.

Why don't the state governments essentially "lease" that land to these solar farm developers? Sure, they could only fit maybe one or two rows of panels in the median, but they could literally span dozens and even hundreds of miles long. In some of the more rural areas along I-40, you could fit two rows of panels in the median and one row about 20ft off each shoulder for dozens of miles.

Why don't we line our interstates with solar panel farms? That land is just empty wasted space.

Then you have all the empty land inside interchanges and off ramps that just goes to waste too. Why not put solar farms on the inside of all of your interchanges and offramps, like this land going to waste:


There's hundreds of these interchanges along every interstate, in every state, with that land inside just doing nothing

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Most farmers lease land in LA.

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100% this. Very few farmers in LA own the land they farm and as more land owners that own ag land and hunting property begin to realize the money making potential from doing these projects, more and more farmers and hunters are going to be screwed. Frankly I am surprised it isn't already happening on a larger scale. Isn't Bill Gates one of the largest land owners in the state of LA? Do you think he gives zero fricks about turning all that property into solar farms?

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It's backwards and counter-productive.

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Welcome to Louisiana!!!! Aiyeeeee lets get some gumbo.

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Also, i don't want the feds getting that money so they can send it to Ukraine. I'm happy keeping this private sector.

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So then it's not about "renewable, clean energy" as the desired outcome, it's actually about making the most money by pretending to be about going green and taking advantage of the environmentalist movement?

That's basically what everyone that isn't a gullible lefty suspected all along, but I appreciate you confirming it

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But my point was i don't want the feds getting all that money from the leases to piss away.

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And I definitely agree with that, I wouldn't want the feds getting any returns on interstate solar farms other than a feel-good pat on the back to tout to their comrades.

I think if the right state governor came along and made a persuasive argument to this particularly weak and "wanting to appear as progressive as possible" administration, they could get the Biden admin to essentially cede the land to the state for interstate solar farms.

Especially with Buttjudge in charge and making the decision to cede the land along/in between the interstate that was considered as belonging to the federal government, for solar farms. He would look like a huge hypocrite if he didn't basically green-light it as soon as the proposal was slapped on his desk

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total energy produced over it's life

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This is all dependent upon reserve size. I'm sure it's a very easy conversion calculation that I don't feel like doing right now. But I would be willing to bet some wells are exponetionally more than solar, and some are martginal or less.

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midstream and downstream needed for the O&G

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This is true more-so for oil than it is gas. Most gas processing can be done on site. I've had wells that have sold directly into distribution lines after meeting
pipeline specs. Most other wells sell to a gathering lines and require minimal processing, typically just dropping out the NGLs.

Interstate
—but when 18 wheelers crash into them….

Bayou Galion ain’t happening. As for the others, stay tuned.

Check my math. 1 cu. ft. of natural gas has a heat content of ~1020 BTU, per epa.gov. 1 btu = 2.93071E-07 MWh.

A marginal well in south Louisiana has reserves of ~2 Billion Cubic Feet. With top performing wells being anywhere from 10 to 100 to even 500 BCF (.5 TCF).

Assuming a well produces 1 million cubic feet a day, which is not a lot at all. That comes out to 299 MWh a day. So in 2 days, a marginal natural gas well produces more energy than an acre of solar panels do.

Assume at the power plant an efficiency of even 20% of the heat content is converted into power and you still only need 9 days to produce more energy than an acre of solar panels.

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The whore got the money. Other parishes have said no after they experienced the reality of destruction of habitat and long-term disposal liability that they figured out only after wasting a lot of money and destroying land.

Dumb whore gonna dumb whore. Sadly the parish president will be gone when the community has to figure this out.

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As soon as the subsidies and tax credits go away there is going to be a eyesore left there for generations.

The gulf south is simply not great for solar and makes it almost impossible to break even much less make any money.