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Posted on 2/17/23 at 8:58 pm to Penrod
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but taking up farmland is really not one of them.
You would be quite wrong.
Posted on 2/17/23 at 9:04 pm to Penrod
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but taking up farmland is really not one of them.
You might be onto something. I mean, if there was a need to protect farmland, surely the federal government would have an act that requires consideration for impacts to it, right? Especially if it were, I don't know, "prime"?
This post was edited on 2/17/23 at 9:04 pm
Posted on 2/17/23 at 9:15 pm to Bison
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Are we running out of farm land or something?
Yes, in point of fact we are. We’ve sold a shite ton of ag land to the Chicoms as well as investment groups like Black Rock and individuals like Bill Gates. Farmland isn’t infinite.
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n the future , crops will be grown in vertical towers. I think we can spare a few acres.
Yeah that’s not gonna Work for corn, potatoes, soy beans, or wheat. Vertical towers are suitable for leafy greens. Other crops not so much.
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Do you understand that oil and gas reserves are another finite resource?
Do you understand that land is far
More finite than oil and gas reserves? We continue to develop technologies to harvest fossil fuels from new and existing sources. We can find more oil and gas. They’re not making any more land.
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don’t you consider it a benefit to have diversified entergy sources in Louisiana in case we decide to ration our oil/ natural gas reserves over the next half century
Not if we can’t feed ourselves. Not to mention the fact that the rest of the world depends on our agricultural production as well. Guess you’re one of those people who plans on eating bugs and living in a pod. Never heard anyone bragging about being from an agriculturally poor country or happy that they were dependent on someone else for their crops. They were usually more excited to come to America. Wonder why?
Posted on 2/17/23 at 9:21 pm to GREENHEAD22
quote:gonna make mrgo and levees look good though
Putting these on arable land, pasture, or woods is going to go down as a huge long term travesty.
Posted on 2/17/23 at 9:23 pm to goofball
Should be building some natural gas turbines. Takes up 0.1% of the required land and delivers usable power.
Posted on 2/17/23 at 9:34 pm to Penrod
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There’s a lot to criticize about solar subsidies, but taking up farmland is really not one of them. If solar was reliable - it’s not - then the area taken up by enough solar to supply the power needs of our entire country could fit in the Southern Utah desert.
Why are they using drinking water for farming deserts (California) creating a water crisis while turning prime farmland into solar farms?
Posted on 2/17/23 at 9:41 pm to goofball
What a waste. That could money be used for NIL and hiring a new basketball coach.
Posted on 2/17/23 at 9:43 pm to goofball
Complete waste of fricking time for net gain versus risk.
Posted on 2/17/23 at 10:02 pm to goofball
As much as I'd rather it stay farmland, I'll take solar panels over more DSLD/Horton neighborhoods.
Posted on 2/17/23 at 11:51 pm to tigerinthebueche
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[running out of farm land or something?] Yes, in point of fact we are.
^^False dilemma:
as much as 40% of US food/ produce goes to waste each year.
If folks are starving , it’s not form lack of farmland. It’s from shortfalls in product distribution, allocation , and product demand.
LINK farm bureau
LINK USDA study
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We can find more oil and gas. They’re not making any more land.
LINK farm land info
Of the almost 30 million acres that make up the state, about 16% is farm land. If 40% of that crop is to waste , that’s almost 2 million acres that are that profitable as farm land.
If 2 million acres are not profit as farmland then and intelligent person maybe consider other sources of revenue such as solar entergy.
It is amazing how you attempt to use the argument that land is a finite resource that we need to preserve but cannot acknowledge that oil and gas are non renewable resources that would be valuable for our state to ration.
Also, we are developing technologies so crops can be grown in space , hydroponics systems, and indoors.
There is in fact no food shortage in the United States so your entire argument is a false appeal to pity.
Posted on 2/17/23 at 11:58 pm to Bison
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Great well, don’t you consider it a benefit to have diversified entergy sources in Louisiana
It’s energy. Louisiana has had a belly full of entergy.
Posted on 2/18/23 at 12:03 am to goofball
Looks like you could grow some kind of row crop along with it
Posted on 2/18/23 at 12:07 am to goofball
The people of the Parish need to fight it, we have one in Washington Parish and not only is it an eyesore but it now occupies what used to be farmland.
Posted on 2/18/23 at 12:15 am to goofball
How do they keep weeds/vines from blocking the panels? Roundup?
That looks like a version of hell if you had to weedeat every row in the summer.
That looks like a version of hell if you had to weedeat every row in the summer.
Posted on 2/18/23 at 9:50 am to gizmothepug
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The people of the Parish need to fight it, we have one in Washington Parish and not only is it an eyesore but it now occupies what used to be farmland.
If you don't pay the property taxes and take care of that land then STFU.
Posted on 2/18/23 at 9:54 am to Jim Rockford
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Looks like you could grow some kind of row crop along with it
I don't know. Those things leak some nasty shite into the ground. These huge solar farms are NOT environmentally green.
Posted on 2/18/23 at 10:00 am to A Smoke Break
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quote: How do you know? Ask my wife.
So what your saying is when she’s done, you suck her mouth and tongue clean?!?!
Posted on 2/18/23 at 10:02 am to ragincajun03
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I don't know. Those things leak some nasty shite into the ground. These huge solar farms are NOT environmentally green.
Undamaged modules do not leak. Thats only physically damaged or an issues during disassembly.
Posted on 2/18/23 at 10:28 am to Bison
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There is in fact no food shortage in the United States so your entire argument is a false appeal to pity.
This is 100% incorrect. 1 out of 3 children in the Louisiana suffer from hunger at some point in their childhood.
Nationally, 15% of households can afford and don’t eat three meals a day (or an 1800 cal. healthy diet).
And the USA is the wealthiest country in the world.
But more importantly, you are missing the macro level problem …This is a world issue.
We can’t currently feed the world population. Have you bothered to notice fish populations plummeting? Have you stopped to notice deforestation across the world to turn forested area to marginal ag land for soybean/cattle production?
Yet we are taking highly productive land out of cultivation for one of the most inefficient forms of energy production.
We can produce energy through significantly more efficient means. We can’t produce food through other effective means.
it’s a shame to see how backwards our solar/energy policy has become in the US.
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