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Clearly pulled it straight out of his ass. I'm sure he does watch OAN and the Fox opinion shows....and nothing else.

That's an interesting line of thinking. Let me get this straight. You at least do grasp that the states with the explosion of COVID cases and deaths are predominantly the conservative state's who opened early and politicized pretending that COVID wasn't a big deal. Presumably you also agree that...

Those protests were happening predominantly in Texas and Florida? California is really the only state where a significant bump in both protests and COVID. The other 15 or so states with huge increases were the one's who opened soonest and politicized pretending that COVID wasn't a big deal the...

I'm on day 8 waiting for the results of my nasal swab test results being processed by LabCorp which is I think doing a significant percentage of our testing in the U.S. I don't disagree with anything you're saying (and btw troll boy @Turveyd doesn't actually listen to the answers to any of...

As it has been in every country that took this seriously and now have a fraction of the death rate of the US and Brazil whose leaders decided to politicize this and ignore science in favor of their own personal gut feelings.

Something to think about is that some of the problem is the fact that at the end of the day one or two farmers get a windfall (pun intended) profit and none of their neighbors do, so base emotions like jealousy are manifest as opposition to wind in general. It's possible that increasing payments...

Sure, you have no problem hiring a guy with no medical education to perform surgery on you or no civil engineering education to design bridges or high rises or no aeronautical engineering education to design airplanes because "education means nothing in this age", right? While certainly as the...

That's funny, I could have sworn my entire response was to your post saying Can you find it in yourself to no longer "question the value of solar farms at current efficiency rates"? I'd call that a minor win for knowledge and facts, wouldn't you? And if your 10 year old information on large...

You appear to have three extra letters at the beginning of your handle, you really should have those removed:finger: First, I'm joining @Same Lazy Element in calling bullshit on your "ivy league with honors" lie. Complete and utter bullshit, I too will buy your dinner if you can prove otherwise...

This is the kind of guy who deserves to get punched in the face by a 72 year old Buzz Aldrin. Bet he could still take him today at 90.

Bully? Project much buddy? BTW, some of the people you're interacting with here (not me) are actually experienced professionals actively working in the markets. Your interactions with them have not been....professional. Again it's not clear what you hope to accomplish here on ET? Do you know...

I agree that we do have weak intergrid connections, but we don't have to and in the grand scheme of things making that work isn't unsurmountable at least technically. I actually think the future will involve a lot of negative pricing/curtailment. As renewables and potentially nuclear get...

Solar does produce significantly more energy over it's life than it takes to build, install, dismantle and recycle. I just provided source documentation for that and you've provided none to show otherwise.

Believe me, I've been butt in chair in stakeholder meetings so I most certainly know land use issues at a visceral level. It's not trivial, but nor is it prohibitive. Engineers are stupid, we go find the optimal spot from a wind/transmission/irradiance perspective and don't think about soft...

So first off, are you now tracking on the fact that the numbers I'm quoting are an order of magnitude lower than the numbers you're quoting? If you've got that, then I'm not clear on what "large costs" you're talking about. Solar farm operators are routinely signing arms length 20 year...

Great question!

At this point I have to assume you're just willfully being ignorant here? There are 1000 kWH in a MWH. So $.1186 per kWH = $118.60 per MWH. Solar is being sold completely unsubsidized in other countries without subsidies in arms lengths transactions for $13.50/MWH That's $.0135/kWH if you prefer...

There are 37,065,600 acres in IL, much of it fallow farm land. We would need about 13,600,000 acres to power the entire U.S. with solar (and much less when you throw wind into the mix). We're not short on space here in the U.S., that argument is a red herring.

Would love to see the citation for that? Hint, you won't be able to find any real citations on that because its categorically false. On the other hand, there is an NREL study to show the opposite I'm happy to share with you - http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy99osti/24619.pdf

So lets start out with the most important fact. The installed cost of solar farm sized solar 10 years ago was $8+/watt. The price of solar today is sub $.50/watt. So any analysis done more than really a year or two ago in this field is hopelessly out of date and completely inapplicable. You...