We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors

22 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors”

1. Is the French company’s solar division called “Keekbacque”?

2. So how much farmland or wildlife area and how many birds are homeless over these stupid solar mirrors the stupid eco-freaks can have their renewible energy? Darn granola munchers/tree higgers

3. Rate payers get to (eventually) pay $0.275/kwh when the sun shines while likely exporting cheaper surplus power at a loss and more on top when it doesn’t shine for back-up firm power. What a deal! Allowing watermelon clergy to run the energy system is a guaranteed way to commit economic suicide.

4. Give it a couple years and it may well look like this one :
   http://notrickszone.com/2011/07/04/weed-covered-solar-park-20-acres-11-million-only-one-and-half-years-old/
   One small power plant replaces all that terrible high maintenance inefficiency.

5. “This obviously is a very lucrative business,” she says.”
   Yep. Lucrative because of tax subsidies. Take them away, as they have been taken away in Europe because Europe finally realizes what a crock of shit wind and solar farms really are and you get these European grifter companies like Electricité de France coming here where the truth hasn’t penetrated yet.
   Stop the Subsidies Stephen.

6. As opposed to pipelines, where farmers can continue to carry on their farming operations over the lines.

7. I’m just an observer but it seems to me that this whole solar and wind power business is nothing but a Ponzi scheme on steroids.

8. That “solar” scene is an obscenity.

9. Oh pish tosh – Canada has oodles of crop-bearing fertile farmland to sacrifice to non productive utopian experiments – just ask any urban progressive.

10. Having emplaced solar panel remote power panels in several places around this world to power atmospheric stations, the most important thing we had to worry about, besides locals pissing on them, was weed and overhang branch shadows. If these shadows stayed in place too long, the imbalance between the solar exposed cells and the adjacent shadow unexposed cells, at the same time, caused cell burnout. But that is great for the manufacturer, because they get to sell replacements , paid for with your money.

11. Putting solar panels next to tilled land means that dust will constantly be deposited on them, reducing their output.

12. Ontario’s rural municipalities (which largely vote Conservative) have been betrayed by their municipal politicians on this issue and so many others. You can check out the websites of the Ontario Municipal Association and the Rural Ontario Municipal Association below – please let me know if you find one tiny bit of concern about the economic devastation that the Liberal Government’s Green Energy Act has inflicted on their communities.
    https://www.amo.on.ca/
    http://www.roma.on.ca/About-Us/What-is-ROMA.aspx
    For anyone who has the time and/or inclination, here are my thoughts as published in The Landowner magazine a few days after The Dildo’s last election victory.
    http://www.canadianlandowneralliance.ca/articles/Jamie-MacMaster-Abandonment-Then-and-Now.html
    When you peruse the AMO and ROMA sites, you can only arrive at the conclusion that after a further two years of ruin, nothing has changed – Ontario’s Mayors are still sniffing arse in Queen’s Park instead of representing the interests of their people.

13. The solution is to ban nearby farming.

14. It’d be a shame if a hail storm were to come along.

15. “Oh pish tosh – Canada has oodles of crop-bearing fertile farmland to sacrifice to non productive utopian experiments – just ask any urban progressive.”
    True. But just ask Ontario’s farm organizations and many farmers too.

16. Doesn’t look green. Or is blue the new green?

17. Good jobs as a dust-brusher, I hear…

18. Obscene subsidies for “green energy” are OK. Specious, re-defined & outright fabricated “subsidies” for BIG OIL are of course unacceptable to watermelons.

19. With economic decisions like these (paying a French company to install subsidized electricity) what could go wrong?

20. So, are there different subsidy rates to produce and sell power … at night? In the middle of a snowstorm?
    BTW,for such a “low footprint” energy choice (it’s low footprint now, because anything living has been removed … except nematodes and fungi), who pays for such minor services like keeping debris, snow and dirt from the panels? Dirt can reduce the efficiency of production by 20% to 50%. Of course, there are automated solutions … who pays for them, and given the subsidy rates, who would care to pay for them?

21. Snowstorm? They need to be shoveled. Solar in Canada, other than in remote locations, is stupid. In the winter we get like 8 hours of feeble radiation.

22. What you need is LAMBS!
    Lambs eat the grass and weeds nice and short under and around the solar panels and when you want to clean the panel, grab the lamb by all four feet and use his back as a wipe rag.