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Scranton’s zoning board vetoed a four-megawatt solar project, one resident saying ‘nobody wants to look at them’. So much for the President’s ‘most significant investment ever in climate change’.
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Last Tuesday during his State of The Union speech, President Joe Biden repeated a claim he has made many times over the past few years about renewable energy, says Climate Change Dispatch.
Biden declared that the Inflation Reduction Act is “the most significant investment ever in climate change, ever. Lowering utility bills, creating American jobs, leading the world to a clean energy future.”
In 2020, while campaigning for the White House, Biden released an energy plan that promised to “spur the installation of millions of solar panels, including utility-scale, rooftop, and community solar systems.”
In 2021, Biden’s White House released a plan that claimed the U.S. could be getting nearly half of its electricity from solar by 2050.
The plan was released a few days after Biden declared we need to overhaul our energy and power systems because climate change poses “an existential threat to our lives.”
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The rejection of the solar project in Scranton provides yet more proof that land-use conflicts are slowing or stopping the growth of renewable energy projects all across America.
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Scranton, Pennsylvania gets 40 inches of rain, on average, per year. The US average is 38 inches of rain per year. Scranton averages 41 inches of snow per year. The US average is 28 inches of snow per year. On average, there are 174 sunny days per year in Scranton. The US average is 205 sunny days.
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you can just make this up?
Smart, they were correct on their reasoning. But, there is a better reason. If a solar farm was there. It affects what can be put up on property to the east, west and south in the future. Nothing over two stories, that would create a shadow, and the utility could recover lost revenue, from the lack of sunshine. And the solar industry, why not put it in places it makes the most sense, parking lots, skyscrapers, over stadiums, and such.
there will never be a viable cost effective battery or other energy sink any time in the next 100 years. Not on an industrial scale. The Green Mob knows this already.
This is once again about crashing our economy and lifestyle in favor of Middle Ages lifestyle in slave states so that the billionaires can live like Croesus or Caligula.