Kathianne
09-13-2023, 11:08 PM
I don't even want to think of what all this information-with no actual plan-has cost. I really don't want to think of how they will try again and again and again to attempt to implement various parts, with no coherent plan. All the attempts for eminent domain and following lawsuits.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2023/09/12/the_biden_administration_vastly_misleads_the_publi c_on_the_vast_expanses_of_land_needed_for_net_zero _977662.html
The Biden Administration Misleads the Public on the Vast Expanses of Land Needed for 'Net Zero'By James Varney, RealClearInvestigations
September 12, 2023
Above, wind turbines are just one area where the administration is lowballing the land required for its energy transformation. It counts only the stake in the ground – not the broader area required by turbines.
The Biden administration is misleading the country about the amount of land that will be required to meet its ambitious renewable energy goals, RealClearInvestigations has found.
The Department of Energy’s official line – echoed by many environmental activists and academics – is that the vast array of solar panels and wind turbines required to meet Biden’s goal of “100% clean electricity” by 2035 will require “less than one-half of one percent of the contiguous U.S. land area.” This topline number translates into 15,000 of the lower 48’s roughly 3 million square miles.
However, the government report that furnished those estimates also notes that the wind farm footprint alone could require an expanse nine times as large: 134,000 square miles.
Even that figure is misleading because it does not include land for the new transmission systems that would connect the energy, created by the solar panels carpeting the ground and skyscraper-tall wind turbines filling the horizons, to American businesses and homes.
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https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2023/09/12/the_biden_administration_vastly_misleads_the_publi c_on_the_vast_expanses_of_land_needed_for_net_zero _977662.html
The Biden Administration Misleads the Public on the Vast Expanses of Land Needed for 'Net Zero'By James Varney, RealClearInvestigations
September 12, 2023
Above, wind turbines are just one area where the administration is lowballing the land required for its energy transformation. It counts only the stake in the ground – not the broader area required by turbines.
The Biden administration is misleading the country about the amount of land that will be required to meet its ambitious renewable energy goals, RealClearInvestigations has found.
The Department of Energy’s official line – echoed by many environmental activists and academics – is that the vast array of solar panels and wind turbines required to meet Biden’s goal of “100% clean electricity” by 2035 will require “less than one-half of one percent of the contiguous U.S. land area.” This topline number translates into 15,000 of the lower 48’s roughly 3 million square miles.
However, the government report that furnished those estimates also notes that the wind farm footprint alone could require an expanse nine times as large: 134,000 square miles.
Even that figure is misleading because it does not include land for the new transmission systems that would connect the energy, created by the solar panels carpeting the ground and skyscraper-tall wind turbines filling the horizons, to American businesses and homes.
...