Matching Water Heater Elements to Solar PV Panels
Check out David Pogue's video on Matching Water Heater Elements to a Solar Panel for more on how solar doesn't follow ohm's law.
He Set Up a Big Solar Farm. His Neighbors Hated It. – The New York Times
A push toward renewable energy is facing resistance in rural areas where conspicuous panels are affecting vistas and squeezing small farmers.
Joe Wade – Flying over the Greenville solar panels.
At peak capacity the 83 acre PSEG Bethlehem Energy Center in formerly known as the Albany Steam Station can put out 893 megawatts of power when all four turbines are operated at full speed. The 94 acre solar farm in Greenville can put out a peak of 14 MW of power.
Monster CNY solar farm would replace corn and soybeans with power for 30,000 homes – syracuse.com
I think if you look at the environmental impact of many of these large scale renewable projects natural gas is a much less polluting source of energy than large scale solar. We should be working to improve efficiency of existing gas plants and improving pollution controls on legacy facilities rather than building industrial solar facilities.
Monster CNY solar farm would replace corn and soybeans with power for 30,000 homes – syracuse.com
CONQUEST, N.Y. – Imagine every inch of the New York State Fair covered with solar panels. Now double it. That’s the size of a solar farm that developers hope to build in Cayuga County.
The proposed facility in the rural town of Conquest would contain hundreds of thousands of solar panels spread across 2,000 acres, or more than three square miles.
A 200 MW nameplate solar farm on 2,000 acres of land is absurd compared to what can be done with fossil plants with a much lower environmental impact. Burning natural gas produces carbon dioxide, but the impact on the climate is small compared to the vast industrial impacts of solar.
Maybe there an upside to President Trump blocking New York from tinkering with it's ISO rules to ensure that solar farms have access to the grid. If he's re-elected, projects like this might be forever stillborn, as nobody will finance a power plant where there is no guaranteed market for the power produced.