By: Diane Benjamin
Our roof has hail damage, luckily we don’t have solar panels
This is what hail does to an entire field of solar panels.
County Board members may want to watch this video before approving any more: https://www.facebook.com/reel/944478347165945
The panels are full of chemicals that can contaminate the groundwater.
Referring to your previous article Diane about hiring graduates from our colleges, this would be a perfect example of the results of a failed education system.
They don’t care. The objective is to funnel our tax dollars to their leftist marxist democrat friends. The fact that wind and solar are both unsustainable and unreliable matters not.
Looks like the New Library renovation is getting Solar added. Trucks and Equipment arrived yesterday and being installed this week!
Get those fire trucks ready!!
These solar panels are 20’2” high, will be close to homes, ( within 100’ in some cases, blocking views, polluting the farm lands and family backyard, and decrease property values. Some folks are unhappy enough to move out of Bloomington and Illinois because of this. Who wants one close to their homes?.. obviously not the ones who want the panels put in!
How about the Olympia school that had their solar panels on the roof catch fire ? Think about that when you spend thousands of dollars to put solar panels on your roof ! Not only the risk of chemical leakage but think of the air pollution if those panels burn,and obviously burn they do!
true- yet they all feel warm and fuzzy walking into a library with tax funded money funneled to their elitist friends and college grads – all “For The Good” Its an expensive club at taxpayer and the most vulnerable in society.
Trust no one involved in ESG scoring projects or finance. ESG scoring and funded projects “investments” have corrupted our local insurance orgs, banks/trust companies, state and county government bodies.
get those fire trucks ready
Electrical grids get hit by bad weather and go down all the time. I don’t see you complaining about downed electrical grids that sometimes take days to reinstate power to thousands of people.
Solar panels power the International Space Station. They power Mars rovers. They power NASA deep space exploration. Millions of people have solar panels on their roofs that work just fine lowering their electric bills. Very few people have had their solar panels leak anything. Solar panels are designed to be durable and long lasting using materials that are NOT prone to leaking or dripping toxic chemicals as you claim. 246 people died when the Texas grid totaled failed during a winter storm. How many people have died or been injured from leaking solar panels? Zero.
Sweetie, grids abd lines aren’t the same thing
Abby, it’s one thing to restring downed electrical lines, (a few days) it’s another to have to strip out acres of destroyed solar panels, wait for replacement panels (good luck) and reinstall acres of solar panels. That would probably take months of work. Since there will be no natural gas, nuclear or coal backup I hope you are prepared to live in the early 1800’s for a while. Think about what you’ll need to do with no electricity for months.
Most are made in China so replacement s could take longer
Sounds like an exerpt from a National Geographic article or CNN lesson. Lotsa solor projects have proven to not be good for anyone except elite pocketbooks.
The United States makes solar panels so your claim that they’re made in China is false. First Solar is based in Ohio. Q cells is the second largest manufacturer of solar panels in the U.S. Other notable In American solar manufacturing is Solar4America, Sifab Solar, Hellene, Jinko Solar. REC Silicon is now making and shipping polysilicon, no need to go to China.
“As millions of California homes went dark during a heat wave last summer, help came from an unusual source: batteries installed at homes, businesses and municipal buildings.
Those batteries, along with rooftop solar, kicked in up to 6 percent of the state grid’s power supply during the crisis, helping to make up for idled natural gas and nuclear power plants. Rooftop solar panels generated an additional 4 percent of the state’s electricity.
This outcome — homeowners and businesses helping the grid — would have been unthinkable a decade ago. For more than a century, electricity has flowed one way: from power plants to people.
California showed that homes and businesses don’t have to be passive consumers. They can become mini power plants, potentially earning as much from supplying energy as they pay for electricity they draw from the grid.
Home and business batteries, which can be as small as a large television and as big as a computer server room, are charged from the grid or rooftop solar panels. They release energy after the sun has gone down or during blackouts, which have become more common.”
Your scare tactics about solar being toxic isn’t an issue. If you’re so worried about that, throw out your Flat screen TV, your IPhone and computers.
Where do all the parts come from? Do your research