Another graduate of the James G. Watt School of Environmental Science.
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âkupfernigkâ You know itâs not politically correct to call it a âdwarfâ crabapple.
Your âlittleâ crabapple is a little farther from the sun then the big pear and apple trees.
Canât help you with soles.
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Obviously the biggest problem with Solar Energy is that it will turn the town into Liberals. Worse, into Greenies. And then youâll be fluoridating the water and recycling paper and where would we be then?
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I think sheâs secretly in league with the next town over. The first town to build a solar plant sucks all the sunlight from the surrounding area, preventing them from getting the solar power.
I drink your milkshake! FSSSHHH! I drink it up!
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Gotta kill as many plants as you can or theyâll stuck all the light out of the sun.
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Im sure that itâll bo OK now that the USA has promised to limit grenhoiae emissions! NIMBY doesnt work when its everyoneâs back yard.
/sarcasm
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Animal is the best muppet ever!
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This is the problem with our educational system.
Sounds like those plants just need some Brawndo.
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Donât get me wrong, Iâm all for using otherwise wasted space. For domestic installations, there is an added behavioural aspect that the opportunity to not be a net buyer from the grid (or to go âoff-gridâ) completely can incentivise people to conserve energy which is an absolutely vital piece in the puzzle.
Panels arenât becoming efficient quickly enough. The main economic driver is that theyâre getting cheap, but efficiency at the low-cost end of the market is still pretty dire.
Iâm a mining guy and like the idea of post-closure land use being solar (or wind) farming. The land is cheaper than free, as it has to be rehabilitated in any case. Solar farms can be placed on waste piles and tailings emplacements. Infrastructure and power-grid connection is often already in place. Nimbyism is likely to be less of an issue as the solar farm is less intrusive than the mine was. One huge local issue with the oil-sands industry in Alberta is that the tailings are (for technical reasons) extrordinarily hard and expensive to rehabilitate and revegetate in any reasonable timeframe. Solar farming might convert these areas to long-term usefulness sooner.
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Because Germans have a word for practically everything?
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Perhaps not your answer, but I think theyâre my answer. I have 5kw of PV on my roof. It supplies the day-side needs of the house (which is considerable; weâre usually home all day.) The PV array also feeds into a crappy battery array that I built out of old boat and golf cart batteries for night use. It can just barely store enough to supply the household for about one gloomy day (though longer if we conserve.) I was thinking about getting a couple of worn-out Prius battery packs, but now Iâm looking forward to Teslaâs product.
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Youâd think anyone who doesnât want to be socialist, who wants to be independent, would be all over this. Solar power is perfect for the Get Off Mah Property lifestyle.
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Itâs almost disappointing that all this nonsense is so nonsensical as to not even be available(much less actually part of solar plant operation).
I could definitely get behind a technology that somehow absorbs the light and warmth from the area around it, creating a chilling pall of pure darkness; rather than just casting a boring old shadow.
As for the guy who came and talked about how I-95 caused some other town to wither; therefore solar plants will cause your children to move awayâŚI just donât even. Why would any type of power plant be expected to have social effects similar to a highway?
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Well Iâm about as socialist as it gets here, and Iâm down with it, so that probably doesnât have much to do with it. 
We try to be independent. I wouldnât call us preppers, but you can see some of them from here. We just got tired of giving our local power company (SDG&E, aka Sempra Energy, who are evil! EEEEEVIIIIIILLLL!) $300 every month. Yeah, the PV panels and circuitry were a big capital expense, but they will have paid for themselves in another year, and thereâs power left over to charge RatWomanâs funny libral electrocar.
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I was saying to my global-warming-denier landlord the other day that gasoline is really just an energy storage mechanism, like a battery, itâs just that the energy has to be released through combustion. With that in mind, wouldnât hydrogen be a good way to store solar energy, since H2 can be extracted from water with electricity? Iceland currently (ha, good pun) does that with geothermal power plants.
Or maybe someone in North Carolina will say âBut the sun is made of hydrogen! Youâll just use up all the sunâs energy with that plan!â
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Well shoot! Now I know why I couldnât catch a tan last summer. Yâall better stay inside next summer or I gonna be downright pissed!
dunkoff in german: stupid
