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re: 1600 Acre Solar Farm coming to St. Landry Parish
Posted on 4/26/23 at 11:49 am to RaginRampage
Posted on 4/26/23 at 11:49 am to RaginRampage
quote:TLDR solar is a joke.
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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Posted on 4/26/23 at 12:01 pm to White Bear
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TLDR solar is a joke.
No. Because that solar will last much longer and continue to produce with low O&M cost. I’m going to do some more math latter and see how that looks.
Posted on 4/26/23 at 12:04 pm to billjamin
Solar will never produce any useful amount of energy and will waste land better served for agriculture
It’s all part of getting us to eat bugs and have nothing
It’s really sad how you’ve swallowed your company bait hook, line, and sinker
ETA: and admit that this is another Chesapeake deal where the company gets the money and the landowner gets screwed
The government already paid y’all in bugboy credits and y’all sold social justice points to the power company
The panels will get destroyed by a hurricane in first 5 years and nobody will ever come to fix them
It’s all part of getting us to eat bugs and have nothing
It’s really sad how you’ve swallowed your company bait hook, line, and sinker
ETA: and admit that this is another Chesapeake deal where the company gets the money and the landowner gets screwed
The government already paid y’all in bugboy credits and y’all sold social justice points to the power company
The panels will get destroyed by a hurricane in first 5 years and nobody will ever come to fix them
This post was edited on 4/26/23 at 12:09 pm
Posted on 4/26/23 at 12:15 pm to el Gaucho
I’m not sure if you’re a shitty troll or an idiot. Probably both.
Posted on 4/26/23 at 12:21 pm to billjamin
I get it if you don’t want to answer, but I’m still not gonna eat your bugs
The solar companies are just another frontload scam that screws the landowner
Chesapeake with a pride flag
The solar companies are just another frontload scam that screws the landowner
Chesapeake with a pride flag
Posted on 4/26/23 at 12:28 pm to el Gaucho
Answer what? Your points are so idiotic they don’t really require addressing.
Posted on 4/26/23 at 12:38 pm to billjamin
The landowner will stop getting paid within the first 10 years because the panels won’t be producing anything by then due to hurricanes and the panels themselves losing efficiency over time
When the landowner calls about how to get rid of them the company they dealt with will have already packed it’s carpet bag and declared bankruptcy
The entire history of the solar “industry” is
1. The government pays for the panels
2. They never produce any useful amount of electricity
3. The homeowner wants to get the ugly solar panels off the house but can’t get in touch with the installer
4. The homeowner has to remove them at his own expense and finds roof damage from the installation
Why would that change just because it’s in a field
When the landowner calls about how to get rid of them the company they dealt with will have already packed it’s carpet bag and declared bankruptcy
The entire history of the solar “industry” is
1. The government pays for the panels
2. They never produce any useful amount of electricity
3. The homeowner wants to get the ugly solar panels off the house but can’t get in touch with the installer
4. The homeowner has to remove them at his own expense and finds roof damage from the installation
Why would that change just because it’s in a field
Posted on 4/26/23 at 12:39 pm to el Gaucho
There is a 2,000 acre solar farm planned SE of Lake Charles. Some of it covering the old WWI Gerstner airfield. The panels are only rated to 110 mph and that area just got rocked by 150 mph winds during Laura. Almost every major hurricane that has passed through that area the winds would blow those panels into new residential areas and the future sight of St. Louis catholic school.
ETA - The company setting up that solar farm openly admitted that they don’t turn a profit without government subsidies. This land was a prime farmland 20 years ago.
ETA - The company setting up that solar farm openly admitted that they don’t turn a profit without government subsidies. This land was a prime farmland 20 years ago.
This post was edited on 4/26/23 at 12:42 pm
Posted on 4/26/23 at 12:40 pm to el Gaucho
Lol no. I’m driving. I’ll point out how ridiculous all that is in a few when I get home.
Posted on 4/26/23 at 12:41 pm to redstick13
Hopefully Desantis keeps sending immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard so they’ll keep the weather machine turned at Florida
Posted on 4/26/23 at 12:50 pm to billjamin
I didn’t mean to sound aggressive
I’d work for Hillary if the pay was good enough
I’d work for Hillary if the pay was good enough
Posted on 4/26/23 at 12:51 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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The issue is converting prime farmland or forest into them and the return on that investment being shite in terms of energy density.
I can only speak to the new Lightsource/BP development in Plaisance, not sure about the one in Ventress New Roads or any others going up in Louisiana. But in Plaisance this is far from prime farmland. That entire area stopped producing its cash crop of sweet potatoes back in the late 90's. And the minerals under the land are too deep to attract oil leases and production.
Posted on 4/26/23 at 1:25 pm to White Bear
quote:Solar farms may be a joke, but solar itself is not.
TLDR solar is a joke.
Plenty of people have off-grid battery-solar setups which power their homes and vehicles, making them energy independent at the individual level. To them, choosing to buy energy at fluctuating prices dependent on policies at the local, state, national, and global levels, as well as global conflicts and supply chain issues, is a joke.
Posted on 4/26/23 at 1:31 pm to Korkstand
quote:Gov tax credits drive the “demand” at the farm and homeowner level.
Plenty of people have off-grid battery-solar setups which power their homes and vehicles, making them energy independent at the individual level. To them, choosing to buy energy at fluctuating prices dependent on policies at the local, state, national, and global levels, as well as global conflicts and supply chain issues, is a joke.
Posted on 4/26/23 at 1:35 pm to Korkstand
quote:
Plenty of people have off-grid battery-solar setups which power their homes and vehicles, making them energy independent at the individual level. To them, choosing to buy energy at fluctuating prices dependent on policies at the local, state, national, and global levels, as well as global conflicts and supply chain issues, is a joke.
Can you give us one example that isn’t from the solar carpetbaggers website?
Posted on 4/26/23 at 1:51 pm to White Bear
quote:How is that in any way relevant to what I said?
Gov tax credits drive the “demand” at the farm and homeowner level.
Pretty much everything you or I have ever bought was influenced in some way and at some time by government action.
Posted on 4/26/23 at 2:07 pm to Korkstand
Baws gonna drive their subsidized eco boost ford to get some subsidized beaver nuggets at Bucees.
Posted on 4/26/23 at 2:24 pm to Korkstand
quote:I understand that, usually done historically for economic progress and freedom. The forced “renewables” are regressive and are about controlling people.
Pretty much everything you or I have ever bought was influenced in some way and at some time by government action.
This post was edited on 4/26/23 at 2:24 pm
Posted on 4/26/23 at 2:28 pm to White Bear
quote:
Gov tax credits drive the “demand” at the farm
quote:
Facing a revolt from Midwestern Republicans over doing away with biofuel tax credits that were just signed into law last year by Democrat Biden, GOP House members relented and allowed the tax credits to stay on the books in their bill.
Why does anyone who never owned a farm care one whit about what a farmer chooses to produce on his or her land?
I don't get it.
A farmer decides to produce soybeans? That's his business. He wants to produce solar power? That's his business too.
Posted on 4/26/23 at 2:49 pm to billjamin
While it may be fun it would be pretty exhaustive to do. There are wells that will do over a BCF a day and some that do a fraction of that but have been online for a decade or more.
I can tell you that of it is an offshore well that is not on a manned facility it is making at least 3MCF a day to stay on a loop and still be profitable.
Not sure how many solar panels 3MCF equate to.
I can tell you that of it is an offshore well that is not on a manned facility it is making at least 3MCF a day to stay on a loop and still be profitable.
Not sure how many solar panels 3MCF equate to.
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