Third party ownership has been a thing for quite some time.
wllms spreadsheet or the solar panel salesman's spreadsheet. Which one should I use if wanted to make a smart fiscal choice?
www.solarreviews.com
paylesspower.com
I can understand why they would be under attack. Those subsidies are part of why MI has a high cost of electricity. But I don't live there so I'll just watch the battle from the cheap seats.
so much harder to swindle the private property owner than the public land owner for cheap leasing and ROI though, right?
This bailout?
missoulacurrent.com
You know I was thinking about this because that's who I am and stuff like this keeps me up at night. It seems like the easiest solution is for the political elite is to take public lands for these and other uses. Now I know that some folks disagree with the existence of public land to begin with (think our good friends in the Great State of Texas), but I like em and would like to keep them around.
There is another (complicated), solution that may end up saving some capital expensive and repurpose some privately held land that could be affected. Now, this may end up changing some lives so it may be controversial.
It appears that we can grow many foods in repurposed warehouses closer to population centers which would cut down on transportation costs/exhaust emissions, increase food freshness, increase growing cycles and food production (i.e.. higher turn rates of the space being utilized to grow food), due to artificial photosynthesis. These systems seem to use less water, less soil (if any), and lower capital costs of farming equipment like tractors and large land purchases.
If this works it would likely cause a lot of farm land to be repurposed for energy uses or for growing elk herds. It would be terrible to see farm land lost to condos and further subdivisions as it contributes both to our food system and to our natural environment.
Next up: Mark Oshima - farming up
Growing populations mean we need more food from less land, so vertical farming may be the key to building a better working world.www.ey.com
When we started planning our house that was built last year I wanted to put in Solar panels bad. At the time they would pay for themselves in just a few years because of tax credits and any power you generated more than you used was bought back by the power company. Im not sure if it was everywhere, but in the great state of Iowa they let those tax credits go and the power company does not have to buy any extra generated power from you. If you create more power than you use you are essentially a power plant for the power company who turns around and sells that power to others.
I am acquaintances with a few very well known people in the birding world and although they are very much for efficiency and not burning fossil fuels they have all said that we need to be very careful with the development of green energy like large scale solar and wind farms because of the amount habitat destruction and in the case of windmills the disruption of migration and flight paths of birds. One of the said acquaintances does bird surveys around largescale windfarms; I am not sure who is funding him to do these studies but you will not find the developers bragging about the findings because it is not good for the birds.
This bailout?
Montana House panel kills NorthWestern Energy's Colstrip push
A House committee Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to kill the controversial bill meant to encourage NorthWestern Energy to acquire a larger share of the Colstrip 4 power plant in southeast Montana.
