Solar alters desert environment

[Old Rocks]

Data from multiple sites and sources indicate that solar has a beneficial impact on deserts. It cools the ground in the day, and warms it at night. As well as helping conserve moisture in the soil.

MSN

 

[Manonthestreet]

Data from multiple sites and sources indicate that solar has a beneficial impact on deserts. It cools the ground in the day, and warms it at night. As well as helping conserve moisture in the soil.

MSN

Are you trying to destroy the desert? what will happen to the creatures who need the heat

 

[Concerned American]

Are you trying to destroy the desert? what will happen to the creatures who need the heat

And the vegetation that requires the light.

 

[MarathonMike]

Data from multiple sites and sources indicate that solar has a beneficial impact on deserts. It cools the ground in the day, and warms it at night. As well as helping conserve moisture in the soil.

MSN

I try to be fair about "green energy". My observation here in Arizona is that the big solar farms are a net benefit providing significant energy to the state. I would like to see the shade under the panels utilized for growing plants, I haven't seen much of that.

 

[NotYankee]

I try to be fair about "green energy". My observation here in Arizona is that the big solar farms are a net benefit providing significant energy to the state. I would like to see the shade under the panels utilized for growing plants, I haven't seen much of that.

I've recently seem "solar farms in S. Idaho/North Utah. I too wonder about their effect on things.

 

[NotYankee]

They used to have a solar facility where reflectors focused the collected light energy on a Heat absorber on a tower. It was a bit S. E. of Barstow, California.

 

[Concerned American]

They used to have a solar facility where reflectors focused the collected light energy on a Heat absorber on a tower. It was a bit S. E. of Barstow, California.

I know that solar farm--it is in Daggett, just east of the Marine base. Solar doesn't work on heat though---just light, photovoltaic.

 

[petro]

Acres of ugly solar fields west of the Twin Cities has turned once green farmland into a dead wasteland of panels chasing wildlife into ever smaller areas. Nothing benefits from the abomination of these ugly fields.
Then for several months they are covered in snow, along with the shorter daylight and low sun angle.
Then the question comes up on how much petroleum products it takes to produce thousands of panels, with a limited life span, along with all the precious metals and toxic chemicals to produce them.

There is no clean energy.
Time for that lie to end.

 

[MarathonMike]

Acres of ugly solar fields west of the Twin Cities has turned once green farmland into a dead wasteland of panels chasing wildlife into ever smaller areas. Nothing benefits from the abomination of these ugly fields.
Then for several months they are covered in snow, along with the shorter daylight and low sun angle.
Then the question comes up on how much petroleum products it takes to produce thousands of panels, with a limited life span, along with all the precious metals and toxic chemicals to produce them.

There is no clean energy.
Time for that lie to end.

Solar farms in cold areas makes no sense at all. They make quite a bit of sense here in Arizona and other desert areas that see 320 + sunny days per year.

 

[petro]

Solar farms in cold areas makes no sense at all. They make quite a bit of sense here in Arizona and other desert areas that see 320 + sunny days per year.

I can see the windmills here, but the solar is definitely dumb, and at least you can still have productive farmland around a windmill, but thousands of acres of solar render that land useless for anything else.
They are literally covering some of the most fertile and productive farmland here. Not to mention those missing crops used to offset that carbon these idiots are so worried about.

 

[Crepitus]

Data from multiple sites and sources indicate that solar has a beneficial impact on deserts. It cools the ground in the day, and warms it at night. As well as helping conserve moisture in the soil.

MSN

Saw an article about that, pretty cool stuff.

 

[fncceo]

Solar alters desert environment​

Why do you hate the environment?

 

[ding]

Data from multiple sites and sources indicate that solar has a beneficial impact on deserts. It cools the ground in the day, and warms it at night. As well as helping conserve moisture in the soil.

MSN

Like I’ve been saying all along…. there’s no better way to usher in the next glacial period other than the widespread use of solar.

 

[elektra]

Solar in the desert kills the turtles, kills vegetation, destroys the desert

Only a complete idiot would state solar panels make the desert better

Either way it is proven solar panels create hot spots, increase the temperature, change the climate

 

[Concerned American]

Solar in the desert kills the turtles, kills vegetation, destroys the desert

Only a complete idiot would state solar panels make the desert better

Either way it is proven solar panels create hot spots, increase the temperature, change the climate

Pave the interstates with solar panels.

 

[elektra]

Pave the interstates with solar panels.

They tried, it failed, and solar provides too little electricity for a huge price

 

[braalian]

I try to be fair about "green energy". My observation here in Arizona is that the big solar farms are a net benefit providing significant energy to the state. I would like to see the shade under the panels utilized for growing plants, I haven't seen much of that.

That sounds like a good idea on paper (growing plants under the panels) but I bet it would be ridiculously labor intensive

 

[Concerned American]

They tried, it failed, and solar provides too little electricity for a huge price

They are being tested as we speak in Sandpoint ID. Results have not been determined at this time.

 

[elektra]

They are being tested as we speak in Sandpoint ID. Results have not been determined at this time.

You are behind the times, tried and failed, and again too little electricity at a great expense. There are threads on the failed solar road.

 

[elektra]

They are being tested as we speak in Sandpoint ID. Results have not been determined at this time.

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