re: $170 million solar farm planned for St. Landry Parish

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I know there's a decommissioning plan in place for this thing, but I'm still concerned that it will leach stuff into the lake.

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decommissioning? My biggest concern is that the operator abandons the site altogether after a storm or the subsidies dry up and the contamination goes unchecked until the taxpayers pay to clean it up. The contents of those panels are pretty nasty from what I've read. How bout the ground water? People freak out over a fertilizer plant or the train derailment in Ohio (rightfully so), but few even consider the solar panels.

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Billy's Boudin store in Opelousas

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Billy's tastes like inside out a-hole.

make sure you have a generator available for the future load shedding due to grid instability

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I wonder if they considered the construction costs for 155 mph wind engineering design?

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Yes.

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I saw they are building a big Billy's Boudin store in Opelousas next door to the Lowe's at I-49/US-190. They could potentially end up being as ubiquitous in south Louisiana as Buc-ee's are in Texas or Sheetz in Pennsylvania.

I'm definitely a fan of the store's offerings. But also impressed at how their newer buildings are turning out. Definitely a step or two above a typical fuel/travel stop.

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Hopefully their new buildings come with automatic doors.

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Oh good! More land rendered unusable for at least 25 years at taxpayer expense. So much for being the worlds breadbasket

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It seems like a lot of this land wasn't being used currently anyways.

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That's not really my point though. What I'm trying to say is that solar and fricking windmills will never be able to power our grid reliably. It's fine for supplemental, but our democratic lawmakers continue to push the retard logic that we can go green and continue trucking on and further taxing the grid and powering it with temperamental sources.

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We can expand solar power while still recognizing it will never be enough for our sole needs.

Exactly, a lot of these are going to be ditched, especially when it comes out the soil is shot from heavy metal leaching and has to be remediated. Can you say mini superfund sites everywhere.

Putting these on arable land, pasture, or woods is going to go down as a huge long term travesty.

frick all these bastards and there bs science.

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It seems like a lot of this land wasn't being used currently anyways.

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Sure it was. These companies aren't leasing land that has to be cleaned up; that costs more. Hell, alot of them are picking agricultural land in hopes that it expedites the permitting process. Less impacts to wetlands and other natural resources means less mitigation and a faster turnaround on permits.

Plus, when you're competition for use of the land can't afford what you can pay, and the landowner is only concerned about how much money he's going to get, its a no-brainer.

Why can’t one of you engineers make solar power more efficient?

20% of that space taken for 10X KWH output should be water mark.

Put me down as investor.