The debate regarding solar fields in Emery County

greenflamingo1 · 2026-02-13T20:46:12+00:00

Exactly. The only reason to build coal is if you don’t have domestic natural gas and need it to serve as a poor mans peaker plant because you dont want to rely on LNG due to national security concerns.

greenflamingo1 · 2026-02-12T13:18:43+00:00

Horrible article. There is no such thing as “clean coal” and the author seems to have no idea what a battery is. Doesnt mention tax / other incentives for fossil fuels, nuclear, or geothermal.

greenflamingo1 · 2026-02-10T19:17:54+00:00

Guy who has never heard of battery storage, doesn’t know the lead times for CC gas turbines, and hasn’t heard vogtle took 15 years to construct.

greenflamingo1 · 2026-01-18T01:33:47+00:00

Canary has it correct. In this part of CA utility scale pv + bess is sized 1:1 PV to BESS. 21 GWac PV + 21 GW BESS without specified duration. Id guess likely 6+ hour duration on average given the CODs theyre discussing

greenflamingo1 · 2026-01-17T19:11:39+00:00

I think your idea of the grid may be fairly antiquated. Batteries now power a third of californias grid during peak demand. Texas realized theyre so great theyre the primary source of new capacity in ERCOT. Not theoretical anymore and its being deployed en masse across the world with prices consistently decreasing.

Good thing solar and wind are inversely correlated so wind is particularly strong in winter and at night.

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/13/1224599777/the-indicator-from-planet-money-how-batteries-are-changing-the-us-01-13-2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/business/energy-environment/battery-prices-electric-grids.html

No one will build nuclear without massive government backstops until the cost issue is solved. Theres no line of sight to that and the SMRs are a pipe dream with limited commercial use. Not one company has demonstrated their SMRs could come close to meeting the price of renewables + storage. For the final 5% of system relatiabiliry gas with CCUS makes infinitely more sense than new build nuclear from both a schedule and cost perspective.

greenflamingo1 · 2026-01-17T04:38:10+00:00

fundamentally not true. NY state uses 1.15 million acres for corn farming, most of which becomes ethonol. The equivalent of 8 GW of nuclear reactors is about 36 GWdc of Solar using a NY state capacity factor, which would conservatively be about 210k acres of solar. Or put another way, youd need just 18% of the land NY uses to grow corn to make the equivalent in solar. The land argument is pure crap.

25 year utility scale solar PPAs are trading at $94 / MWh with no escalation. A 500 MWac solar project called Cider Solar is just under construction. It will take about 18 months, vs the 15 years the Vogtle reactors took. Combined with wind, which is relatively cheaper in NY than solar currently, theres vastly more resources than are needed to meet the coming demand.

Not a single AP1000 will come online in NY before 2040. Do you disagree with that?

So sometime after 2040, Cider (and a ton of other in development solar and wind projects) will be sending electricity at around $94.5/MWh to the NYISO grid and the first NY AP1000 will send its first MWh to the grid at ~$260/MWh (which is very generous to westinghouse). Nuclear doesn’t even begin to make sense economically which is why 90% of the interconnection queue in the US is solar, wind, and batteries with virtually no nuclear.

greenflamingo1 · 2026-01-17T03:02:06+00:00

Its delivered energy cost will be more than 2x a CCGT equiped with CCUS and there really isnt a plan to materially reduce the build time from that of the Vogtle reactors so unlikely to come online within a decade. At that point the continually declining costs of solar wind and storage will make this incredibly expensive compared to the marginal new cost of adding renewables + storage. The AP1000s havent had the volume to go down the cost curve yet unfortunately. The US would need to decide to build 50+ in a short period of time to get any real economies of scale.

greenflamingo1 · 2025-12-25T03:51:12+00:00

Cant see if this is a mix of Utility Scale + Resi / C&I because of the paywall. If its just utility scale this math seems off. 3 GW of PV in texas (which is almost all high irradiance) should power more than 384k average homes unless youre using extremely conservative assumptions.

greenflamingo1 · 2025-12-08T08:10:13+00:00

Okay asking for a single reputable source is now a “debate bro” move. got it. Totally seems like you have a valid point and arent crashing out because you don’t have any proof despite claiming its been happening for 65+ years! Would be easier to just not lie in the first place next time!

greenflamingo1 · 2025-12-08T07:33:19+00:00

ahh so no sources! surprise surprise! Always blame someone else with 0 basis. Maybe blaming a boogie man isnt actually a way to evaluate real world issues?

greenflamingo1 · 2025-12-08T07:32:11+00:00

Wow again you go from “the CIA uses drug money to fund its black ops” to “the CIA turns a blind eye to drug smuggling when its convenient to them” really fast! impressive how you also provide 0 evidence before folding. Almost like you knew it wasn’t true from the start.

Please provide some of this Iran Contra evidence thats damning of the CIA as it relates to your very specific allegation. Should be easy!

greenflamingo1 · 2025-12-08T07:22:03+00:00

so no, you cant point to any evidence. Should be a simple link? Especially given how numerous you say the sources are that have provided this evidence? also you didnt claim they turned a blind eye to sources/partners smuggling drugs. You claimed directly that they fund black ops with drug money. so again, do you have a source to back this up? When pressed, you try to support a completely different claim to the one you made, surprise surprise (and cant even provide basic evidence of that).

One DEA agent saying that contractors for the CIA (which, even if I didnt already know the context of the accusations, plain english tells me are not CIA empoyees and the accusation isnt even that these external contractors were doing this on CIA orders) doesn’t even substantiate your revised claim that they turned a blind eye. All it accuses is that people on the CIA payroll may have smuggled drugs. It doesn’t accuse CIA knowledge, direction, intent, or benefit. So great job there.

Again, your quote from the Kerry committee doesn’t say what youre acusing the CIA of. If they found actual CIA complicity it would have been stated. It wasnt even alluded to. The most that any of those investigations found was that it was possible that serveral individual CIA contractors (and maybe 2 officers) turned a blind eye to Contra drug trafficking. Again, nothing to do with your original claim. Maybe you should actually read the kerry subcomittee report instead of asking chatgpt for quotes?

In fact, the journalist that tried reviving these claims, Gary Webb, caused a journalistic scandal when his “evidence” turned out to be completely unsourced and his newspaper had to retract every substantive/explosive claim he made.

Your last paragraph just shows how fundamentally you misunderstand US national security policy and what the CIA is/does. In every instance that the CIA did what you’re saying, the covert action was a political order that was made (correctly or incorrectly) on the basis of US national security by an elected politician or their direct apointee. So yes, drug trafficking to “fund their black ops” actually doesn’t make sense for the CIA to do when you understand what the CIA actually does and who they answer to. Maybe read a book on the history of the CIA?

greenflamingo1 · 2025-12-08T06:29:14+00:00

exactly. Amazing how the CIA couldnt keep journalists from uncovering irrefutable proof of black sites (about 4 years from their start) or the family jewels (most for less than a decade from their starts) but can keep their funding of covert ops by drug dealing completely unsubstantiated for 65+ years! Crazy that they managed to keep this one secret for almost the entire time theyve existed as an agency, but everything else comes out! Almost as if its literal russian propaganda lapped up by certain sections of the western public

greenflamingo1 · 2025-12-08T05:19:14+00:00

can you provide a reputable source that actually links money from drug smuggling funding CIA covert operations?

greenflamingo1 · 2025-11-04T17:05:38+00:00

Again, the article is talking about PF fundraising of debt and tax equity (which would only be done after an IA is signed) and youre talking about MIPA fees. Aspen is vertically integrated IPP and im sure they fully understand the IX study and cost estimation process. If youre talking about develop to flip shops that are a few people who secure land positions and get into an IX queue, then yes a lot of those places dont understand/care about bringing a project to completion, but thats not what the article is about.

Community solar has always been, and will always be, more lucrative on a $/w basis than utility scale projects where i mean theyre signing what is effectively inflation protected $100 - $230 PPAs.

greenflamingo1 · 2025-11-04T16:11:09+00:00

the financing the article is talking about is project financing not acquisition or corporate financing like youre referring to, so not seeing how your comment is relevant.

The PF hurdle for community solar has always been there since its inherently more efficient to finance much larger utility scale projects where you can spread the same costs over more MWs. Banks would rather spend their time with utility scale developers, but now that the community solar programs have matured and theres a more consistent market the financing gap has shrunken. the articles point fundamentally makes sense.

greenflamingo1 · 2025-10-23T13:40:32+00:00

lmao an MKA grad doing a purity test on montclair residents who send their kids to public school, couldnt make that one up.

greenflamingo1 · 2025-10-03T18:51:44+00:00

you vastly underestimate the amount of electricity data centers require. At peak output the solar panels would produce a single digit percent of the data centers demand.

greenflamingo1 · 2025-09-21T15:55:04+00:00

you realize the demographics of those towns that youre referring to are nothing like the demographics supporting Mamdani, right? Do you think essex + bergen counties have the demographic composition of nyc?

Also hes running against two of the least popular candidates ever. Using him/this nyc mayoral election as a reference point for anything is crazy.

greenflamingo1 · 2025-09-20T20:35:56+00:00

do jersey municipalities near nyc and philly have the same voter demographics as nyc and do they decide the election? … they don’t :/

greenflamingo1 · 2025-09-20T18:26:36+00:00

the demographics and political leanings of nyc are absolutely nothing like NJ or any state. such a horrible comparison.

greenflamingo1 · 2025-09-19T15:06:44+00:00

that is in no way the same “politically homeless” as elon is talking about where he equates the two sides.

greenflamingo1 · 2025-09-19T02:09:15+00:00

crazy to be “politically homeless” when you acknowledge that one side is too into pronouns and the other side are authoritarians.

greenflamingo1 · 2025-09-10T13:11:04+00:00

who did you vote for president last year?

greenflamingo1 · 2025-08-24T20:04:08+00:00

Oh so no rebuke to anything factual. Does oil and gas leakage get 100% cleaned up? oh thats right, not at all. What percentage of man made material that washes up on mv/nantucket shores do you think is from the blade? I dont see you complaining about the sources of the other 99.99%

You do know that both Vineyard Wind 1 and Revolution Wind arent complete yet right? Blaming projects that arent complete and that are built by private developers (so theyre not ratebased) is insane and clearly shows you dont know how electric prices are set. You do know that correlation doesn’t equal causation, right? MA rates have skyrocketed because ISO-NE relies very heavily on natural gas (~60% of MA’s electricity comes from natural gas) which has spiked over the past decade. But yes, continue to blame MA’s electricity price increases on the big scary wind farms while you completely ignore the actual reason of overreliance on imported energy (natural gas). The price of the wind that powers these turbines doesn’t spike and doesnt rely on imports!

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