There is a place to add some capacity to the grid with "green" tech.
The gov't wants it to be the only method, which of course is foolish and short sighted.
The main issue is the solar and wind stuff is not being put up on land owned by the power company. They are leasing it. They want to entice land owners to allow them to put these in, because the gov't is going to subsidize the hardware and not the land. The leases are about ten years.
I will give you two guesses how long most of the hardware has for an expected life.
There are generally no clauses about clean up, or removal. In the midwest, farmers are approached, and made offers to lease that exceed the value of what they can gain from crop or feed. So some agree to it.
What happens when that lease is over and the subsidized equipment is busted up and not functioning, and can;t go to a landfill or get recycled without fees? The farmer can;t go back to planting crops, there are rows of metal posts and panels and buried wires in the way.
This entire thing is being put together by people looking to make a buck NOW and with no regard to what happens in the next decade. or even the next 5 years sometimes. Land stewardship is a lost social value it would seem now. Which is odd, given the purpose of all these so called better tech's.
Just like the lithium batteries that have basically no plan on how to handle them 5 years from now, these green techs have no real plan either. Videos abound of the piles of windmill arms laying around because they are less than worthless due to costs of disposal.
well said
all the above approach is the best
coal, any # of fossil fuels, solar, wind, nukes, hydro, &/or steam
biofuel or any #s of diesels, propane, natural gas 'fired'
did I miss any ?
any & all have some sort of downside
all the above is better than
a mandatory
one way/my way or the highway approach most have now
batteries & inverters needed don't last either
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to the OP
@1STMP do your due diligence 1st
do a deep look before you spend a dime
on how long the **** lasts & what the downsides are, pros/cons
maintenance costs of any/all wear parts all are & how much to replace
warranties or guarantees aren't worth the paper they are written on
whatever happened to actual science ?
long term studies, real science, instead of
Just shoving **** out way before it's known or proven, worthwhile/worthy
or any or all the damn hype, it's pie in the sky & not reality
most is spin & lies
most of the studies are biased & swayed by the cash,
to fund research is not or never is a consensus of them
don't get dupped,
it's not what they say it is or what it can do, it's all about being compliant
