We should be bioengineering trees or plants that capture carbon more efficiently and grow faster.

I can make it easy for you.

100 GW 8 hours sunlight

So you’ve generated 800GWh out of a possible 2400 GWh

This would be 33% capacity

Given that you are only generating peak capacity for a limited amount of time and other factors like clouds you aren’t generating 100 GW for those 8 hours.

So a more realistic number is 600 GWh, meaning a 25% capacity factor.

This would be the equivalent of having a 25 GW base load asset running at 100% capacity factor

Our city has a plant that makes this and you can see the thick smoke coming from the exhaust chimney for miles. It is thick and dark and generating so much energy that they just release into the atmosphere every day. Real wood goes in and boards wrapped in plastic come out. It's not capturing carbon and it is not helping our planet.

Explain how I’m wrong instead of postulating that I don’t know what I’m talking about.

This uplifting news leaves me bitter. Ironically, it's also about uplifting by Russian troops.

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Tell me you don't know what capacity factor means without telling me you don't know what capacity factor means.

Fuck Russia, and it's genocide against the Ukrainian people!

So many other kids will NOT have a happy ending like this, and will be raised by Russian versions of the Dursley's from Harry Potter.

NHS.

Those are the ones that SURVIVED

Must be the rabies they won’t get the shots for.

150 saved….so far.

The process to remove lignin from wood is very nasty. Organic solvents, acids, etc. Very similar to the wood pulping process in the paper mill industry. Calling it “green” is a big stretch.

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It takes energy to manufacture said wood. The amount of energy needed is likely much, much more than the CO2 captured in the wood. Unless the bulk of that energy comes from renewables, they are doing nothing to fight climate change. Natural growing trees have a much better net effect on carbon capture.

The reason they're unlikely to be using renewables is industrial processes require lots of heat. There aren't many renewable thermal energy systems today. There could be more, but it's a nascent industry.

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The average capacity factor for solar is ~25%, this means that if you have a solar system of 100 GW it’s only producing 25% of its peak capacity. Another point is that the 100 GW quoted is likely dc, meaning it’s going to lose about 10% being converted to ac to be put onto the grid.

Fair enough. 👍🏼

My only agenda is that I’ve driven by a few and been surprised by the industrial scale and ugliness of it. More will come as land is cheap and people are underemployed here

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No, they're conserving more land than they're actually using for these things. A lot of the land isn't even forrested to begin with like you're trying to make people believe. And some of this supposedly forested land is actually for Timber production, not entirely Greenfield areas. So you're leaving out a lot of the story and it's clear you have an agenda that you're trying to push. People aren't buying it.

Drive by a couple and check in with yourself after see if you feel the same way? - a Google Searches don’t really do it Justice - so ugly and unnatural. Maine getting covered with them because land is relatively cheap

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You are absolutely lying about what these projects are doing:

"Syncarpha’s 7-MW project in Old Town will be leasing land from the city to construct an array on Dewitt Airfield. This land, currently vacant, unused and untaxed and with little agricultural value, will now be a stream of rental income for the city over the next 20-years.

In Readfield, Syncarpha and a property owner struck an unusual agreement, whereby the owner will put approximately 75 of 95 acres into conservation. The remaining acreage will be leased to Syncarpha for the construction and operation of a community solar farm.

The power generated by this array will benefit households in the same utility “load zone,” ensuring that the land is not subject to permanent commercial development. After the operational life of the solar farm, equipment will be removed and the portion used for solar will be put into conservation as well.

Syncarpha has purchased rocky land located next to a highway in Augusta to build a solar farm, but will not develop the entire parcel. The project is donating approximately 10 acres of woodlands to the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine, its largest sportsman’s organization, for the alliance’s outdoor education center."

https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2021/06/syncarpha-capital-developing-community-solar-project-portfolio-in-maine/

"Five years in the making, the 152-megawatt solar farm is one of many ongoing renewable energy projects geared toward meeting Maine’s statutory target of 80-percent clean energy by 2030.

The land is owned by Bessey Development Co., a Hinckley-based, family-owned wood brokerage company, and has been in the Bessey family for more than five generations. Most of the land was previously used for commercial timber harvesting, and some of it was used by a tenant farmer to grow corn.

In compliance with the state’s conservation policies to reduce environmental effects, the company has conserved 1,875 acres — including 1,020 acres in what’s called the Unity Wetlands Focus Area, 324 acres in Readfield and 531 acres in Shirley."

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/me/maine/news/2022/11/17/construction-begins-on-maine-s-largest-solar-farm