I wonder if this affects ranchers with gazing rights through BLM? I forgot: eliminate grazing rights and you eliminate beef to save the climate! Better to send money to China for solar panels.
Haha! It will. Also looking forward to seeing how this interacts with the BLM's new conservation and mitigation leases, which conflicts with their "multiple-use and sustained yield" mission and has elevated a non-use over other purposes. Mitigation leases in particular may be used by solar and wind developers to "mitigate" their harms by renting lands to "set aside" elsewhere.
Great post, Sarah. I am a mechanical engineer who designs products to work with solar panels charging batteries. This is all these toxic panels are good for: charging toxic batteries. For only about six hours per day. They are a complete toxic waste with a cost/benefit = infinity.
I wonder if this affects ranchers with gazing rights through BLM? I forgot: eliminate grazing rights and you eliminate beef to save the climate! Better to send money to China for solar panels.
Haha! It will. Also looking forward to seeing how this interacts with the BLM's new conservation and mitigation leases, which conflicts with their "multiple-use and sustained yield" mission and has elevated a non-use over other purposes. Mitigation leases in particular may be used by solar and wind developers to "mitigate" their harms by renting lands to "set aside" elsewhere.
Great post, Sarah. I am a mechanical engineer who designs products to work with solar panels charging batteries. This is all these toxic panels are good for: charging toxic batteries. For only about six hours per day. They are a complete toxic waste with a cost/benefit = infinity.
Absolutely, thank you for your expertise!
The title image of this article just makes you want to run out and buy a few https://highprops.medium.com/chinas-solar-panel-farm-on-top-of-mount-taihang-cefe48c64442
Doesn't it? Personally, I would *love* if the American West was covered with them just like that. (Not!).