Timothy Birdnow

So the great state of Michigan is going to destroy 400 acres of pristine forest land to insall unsightly solar panels.

Kind of like "we have to suspend capitalism to save it" as Bush said.

How much carbon dioxide do these trees remove from the air? Plenty. The average deciduous forest captures 1,406 pounds of carbon dioxide capture per year. So Michigan is making 56,402 of carbon dioxide stay in the atmosphere to generate a smattering of electricity.

This might be a good deal if the solar plant was going to eliminate all emissions from one gas-fired power plant, but it won't come close.

It takes ten acres of solar panels to produce just one megawatt of electricity, and that only when the sun is shining. So this solar far will give Michigan only 40 megawatts of power - 32,000 households.

The average gas-fueled power station puts out around 700 megawatts per hour. You do the math.

"Renewables" are a sacrament in the Holy Green Church and nothing more.

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