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Rafe wrote: ↑Fri Sep 23, 2022 9:51 am

2farnorth wrote: ↑Fri Sep 23, 2022 6:11 am I see valuable farm land being taken out of production to set up massive "Solar farms" that will only generate 1/4 of what the current power plants generate in this area. I think it is a bad dream.

Last week on Fox there was an interview with someone from the energy/utilities side. He made a statement to the effect that in order to produce projected energy requirements via the Green New Deal methods, over 150,000 square miles in CONUS would have to be devoted to solar panels. That would be almost 5% of the entire area of CONUS. By comparison, Texas is 261,914 square miles, California is 155,973, and New York State is 47,224. Another comparison is that the area required would be greater than that of all these states combined:

• Maine
• South Carolina
• West Virginia
• Maryland
• Vermont
• New Hampshire
• Massachusetts
• New Jersey
• Connecticut
• Delaware
• Rhode Island

Combined, those equal 136,147 square miles. And that doesn't count the Green New Deal area needed for wind farms.

Although, if we could empty California and turn the whole state into nothing but a field of solar panels...