Re:U.S. Reenters the Nuclear Fuel Game
by ceejayoz on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @10:20PM
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> I was talking about massive wind farm power generation operations.
Which are almost universally placed in said farm fields, unproductive hillsides, and open ocean. No one's clearing city blocks to place a wind turbine. These "massive wind farm power generation operations" already exist in the middle of Indiana's cornfields. Drive from Chicago to Cincinnati and you'll quickly see how little land they can eat up.
> Same logic applies to just laying massive amounts of solar panels over a wide area.
Same response; they only make financial sense to place on low-value land. A solar farm will be very happy on shitty land that's not particularly suitable for farming, grazing, or habitation. They can even benefit farmland in some climates; https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/03/made-shade-growing-....
Which are almost universally placed in said farm fields, unproductive hillsides, and open ocean. No one's clearing city blocks to place a wind turbine. These "massive wind farm power generation operations" already exist in the middle of Indiana's cornfields. Drive from Chicago to Cincinnati and you'll quickly see how little land they can eat up.
Concrete example: https://www.google.com/maps/place/40%C2%B035'55.2%22N+87%C2%...
> Same logic applies to just laying massive amounts of solar panels over a wide area.
Same response; they only make financial sense to place on low-value land. A solar farm will be very happy on shitty land that's not particularly suitable for farming, grazing, or habitation. They can even benefit farmland in some climates; https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/03/made-shade-growing-....