I live in an old copper mining town with no active mining but acres and acres of tailings piles and highly acidic wildlife-killing ponds. It would be great if the company put solar panels over all the wastelands they own, but I’d fight tooth and nail if some company tried to put a solar plant on undeveloped land or farmland.
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I loved that movie. Colleen Moore was funny even when she wasn’t doing crazy special effects.
Yes. I thought the people in the article were like unto the GOP senator who thought wind generators would use up all our precious natural wind, but P.Z. Myers posted this at Pharyngula, and it spoiled my superior laughter pretty well: http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2015/12/14/but-waitsolar-energy-isnt-consequence-free/
Seems like the article might have given some false impressions. Like Myers, I’m for solar, but this isn’t just about solar, it’s about how a particular company plans to implement it, and what’s in it for the town. (I hung this on your post as a reply because you seem to feel as I do.)
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The last time I read a piece of Larouche literature, I was also reading through the Baroque Cycle, so some of the stuff on Leibniz seemed slightly more relevant.
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Internet strikes; town strikes back.
Rural NC town mocked on social media after passing solar moratorium
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Well, it read as if the proposal before the town was that their woodlands would all get turned into parking lots (with some solar panels) and they’d get 7K a year to train on putting out electrical fires. Maybe. I’m saying P.Z. Meyers has been better at spoiling superior laughter; but it is clear from the original article that Strata solar won their 3-1 vote to not be a bad neighbor (originally proposed as -to be a bad neighbor and ‘agricultural user’ not reporting as such.) Not sure what extra demerit hemming in the power substation was supposed to carry.
the other point I read, is that all the infrastructure was to be installled just outside the city limits. So whatever extra burden ( other, than electrical fires) the city would have to carry, they’d see no tax revenue from any of this activity. Framed that way, I could hardly blame them.
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That is an important detail! But how could the town council vote on it if it wasn’t within their jurisdiction?
hubris?
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This is the point at which my interest in the case bottoms out. The solar farm builder may have pitched any number of towns to see what kind of deal they could get. But not being able to tax a business is a much more plausible reason to nix the project than witchcraft, in my book.
Thanks for the link, KipTW. We could use more such thoughtful responses to alternative energy implementation and less uncritical cheerleading for Big Solar and Big Wind.
Fun fact: Austrians, at least as schoolkids, use their own dictionary, the Österreichisches Wörterbuch, ÖWB (duh). Grammar is obviously identical, but it includes more austria-specific words, like for food and so on.
Yeah, the German-Austrian spelling reform was handled by a commission of several partners, including the Duden and ÖWB. Switzerland didn’t participate.
So, you’re saying Switzerland was neutral with regard to the alliance?
/I’ll show myself out
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