North Carolina Energy Company Finds
Solar Power Actually Increases Pollution
The Federalist,
by
Donald Van Der Vaart
Original Article
Posted By: M2,
10/5/2019 7:11:21 AM
If we expect to create a prosperous future fueled by low-cost, clean energy, it’s time to recalibrate the way we think about renewables. That requires us to move beyond the once cutting-edge view that solar power is a key ingredient in lowering greenhouse gas emissions.
Ironically, a frequent target of environmentalists, Duke Energy, is showing us that’s not the case. In fact, Duke documents show the negative impact of deploying solar power on the electric grid.
Reporting by North State
Reply 1 - Posted by:
udanja99 10/5/2019 7:20:57 AM (No. 198188)
The only solution for clean abundant low cost energy is to start building nuclear power plants again, leftists be damned.
58 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/5/2019 7:29:32 AM (No. 198195)
It's not fair to bring logic and science into this process. It's how you feeeel.
52 people like this.
Well duh! Let's kill birds with windmills and produce a few watts of electricity by covering our roofs with solar, which then must be stored in a battery and slowly dissipates! How much coal or gas went into producing those Windmills and Solar Panels along with the Batteries and all the wiring to connect them. I think copper is mined. I have never picked a copper daisy! Nuclear is the only way to create electricity out of nothing (after plant build costs and maint.) We have two plants here in Minnesota and our power is plentiful and cheap! Yea us! I'll bet Keith Ellison will try to shut them down through the legislature or the courts... That is when we get out the tar, feathers and a rail to ride him out of St Paul!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
franq 10/5/2019 7:38:30 AM (No. 198209)
Don't think this will make it to 60 Minutes.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 10/5/2019 7:42:18 AM (No. 198216)
No, no, no! The SOLUTION is for dems to decree that the sun must shine 24/7/365. /s
15 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 10/5/2019 7:43:32 AM (No. 198219)
Sooooo - - - what?
Does this mean we have only nine years of survival left - - instead of twelve?
OK, then - - - - party on!
25 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 10/5/2019 8:18:10 AM (No. 198252)
The study doesn't account for the visual pollution of the solar panels.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/5/2019 8:20:05 AM (No. 198254)
The left is so goofy that they want us to eat compressed grass and pretend that it's a hamburger. I prefer that it pass through a cow first but the left doesn't like cows either. You can't argue with people like that.
29 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 10/5/2019 8:20:08 AM (No. 198255)
Baby, they lied! Get over it. Ask any knowledgeable Heating & Air Conditioning professional.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 10/5/2019 8:26:54 AM (No. 198263)
If we were to plant corn on all of the acreage that is currently covered by the solareyesores, it would be a slightly less waste of time and money- unless we were to feed the corn to people and animals. Don't get me wrong - there is a use for solar power but it is limited to RVs ,boats, cellphones, yard lights and battery tenders.
20 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
GO3 10/5/2019 8:33:54 AM (No. 198271)
The left doesn't want clean energy. They want a money laundering scheme to pass tax dollars in subsidies through the energy companies to the education establishment and whatever activities they deem fit.
31 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
susieq1 10/5/2019 9:06:56 AM (No. 198290)
I live in NC and just read in our local paper that we will be getting an increase in our electric bill next month.
Everywhere I look are unsightly fields of so called solar farms taking up space that could be used for growing food or planting trees.
28 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
MDConservative 10/5/2019 9:14:13 AM (No. 198298)
And the NC public gets all this courtesy of $3 BILLION in subsidies!
14 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
mc squared 10/5/2019 10:52:42 AM (No. 198367)
I still don't understand the bru-ha over CO2. It's a fraction of the earth's atmosphere and plants love it.
12 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 10/5/2019 11:45:51 AM (No. 198429)
This law REQUIRING the energy companies to buy all the solar power offered to them, regardless of the harm it does to their business and the environment needs to be wiped off the books.
Pure economics needs to rule these decisions, not this leftist lunatic legal requirements.
17 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
coyote 10/5/2019 5:17:32 PM (No. 198693)
I read that the electric windmills have reduced the number of birds in the US by 40%. I've noticed that we don't have the same number of birds we had in the past where I live.
5 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
rochow 10/5/2019 9:13:07 PM (No. 198836)
Email this to Greta Thunberg or whatever her name is... of course, she will know more about it! BTW, why is this stupid vegetable still in the US?? Who pays for her? How does she get from point A to B??? Walking, biking????
2 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
joew9 10/5/2019 9:19:36 PM (No. 198840)
This only covers the see saw effect caused by sun down and sun up.
Every calculation I do from the available data shows that the energy put into creating and maintaining a solar plant is more than the energy the plant will ever produce before it wears out. The government subsidies they get only pays for the lost energy of construction. My conclusion is solar plants are net energy sinks.
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