Numerous drawbacks are attributed to Solar energy, most notably the intermittent nature.
As Strata Solar disclosed in its application to build a solar farm on Gov. Roy
Cooper's Nash County (NC) property: “Solar is an intermittent energy source, and therefore the maximum dependable capacity is 0 MW.”
Important Data from an article written By Michael Shellenberger
We pay one-quarter of solar’s costs through taxes and often much more in subsidies at the state and local level.
A major new study, finds that the waste produced by solar panels will make electricity from solar panels four times more expensive than the world’s leading energy analysts thought.
The economics of solar will darken quickly as the industry sinks under the weight of its own trash.
According to a January report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, some $6.7 trillion was spent on alt-energy globally between 2004 and 2022, with the vast majority of that, some $4.8 trillion spent on renewables. And the vast majority of that $4.8 trillion — about $4.1 trillion — was spent on wind and solar.
The U.S. saw increases, with wind and solar generation growing by 15% and 24%, respectively.
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Another new twist for Solar “farms.” Because of so many problems and cost of “solar vegetation maintenance,” it seems that now the solar developers are looking at AI for a solution.
“Lake Effects” of Large Solar Photovoltaic Projects
Solar photovoltaic projects consist of hundreds or thousands of solar panels that convert sunlight directly into electricity. Large solar fields such as those that have been built in the last several years in Southern California and the desert Southwest can fool birds into changing flight direction, sometimes during migration, to approach them because they appear to be lakes from a distance.
Solar harms more than the environment; it hurts people—especially the economically disadvantaged, who face a hard choice between paying high energy costs or suffering energy poverty.
This is a map of the proposed solar farms that will be built outside of Grandview, Indiana. This project will be leasing at least 30 parcels of land, mostly farm land that is currently producing crops. Every parcel of land that has a series of black numbers with a white border around the numbers, is a parcel of land where they want to place solar farms.
At times, noise from construction on the project is so loud and constant Whitt and her husband escape by hopping into their car and leaving their home.
“Six or seven days a week, it’s ‘beep beep beep’ and ‘bam bam bam,’” she said. “When they put those poles in, it about sent me over the edge.”
Technology giant Amazon has announced it is partnering with Arlington County to purchase the energy from the Pittsylvania County solar project, which is being named Amazon Arlington Solar Farm Virginia. The project is 7 miles northwest of Chatham.
Facilities contain huge batteries storing electricity for the National Grid – a new form of crop for farmers scrambling to cash in on the 'green' energy revolution
We are NOT trying to stop ALL solar farms.
However we do believe they should not be built next to or in view of residential houses, on prime farm land, in areas that will cause soil erosion or have an adverse effect on wildlife, streams or anywhere else that would interfere with the natural scenic beauty of our countryside.
