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Rural America set to be transformed by up to 55 million-acre federal solar plan
« on: March 01, 2024, 05:12:36 am »
Rural America set to be transformed by up to 55 million-acre federal solar plan
February 29th, 2024
By Kevin Stocklin:

Solar energy’s appetite for vast amounts of land has prompted the Biden administration to propose designating as much as 55 million acres of public lands as potential sites for industrial-scale solar farms.

That’s an area larger than 36 states and similar in size to Idaho or Minnesota.

An updated initiative by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), called the Western Solar Plan, proposes six alternatives for solar development.
In the most aggressive of these scenarios, 55 million acres across 11 Western states would be made available for solar energy. The least aggressive alternative would designate 8 million acres for that purpose.

https://www.cfact.org/2024/02/29/rural-america-set-to-be-transformed-by-up-to-55-million-acre-federal-solar-plan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rural-america-set-to-be-transformed-by-up-to-55-million-acre-federal-solar-plan&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rural-america-set-to-be-transformed-by-up-to-55-million-acre-federal-solar-plan
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Re: Rural America set to be transformed by up to 55 million-acre federal solar plan
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2024, 11:49:18 pm »
They are going to have to get all that energy out of there somehow.

That means a lot of copper wire...

Hmmmm. Copper.... :pondering:

It could be the biggest Meth Head migration in history!
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Re: Rural America set to be transformed by up to 55 million-acre federal solar plan
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2024, 08:45:22 am »
UK Telegraph: ‘The American revolt against green energy has begun’ – There’s no such thing as a wind or solar ‘farm’, just an ugly industrial site

https://twitter.com/ClimateDepot/status/1764268037744558310
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