But don't over-react by saying, "Oh, hell, the ground's shaking, let's shut down the fracking!" This is just nonsense.
It's not if your house is sitting on the seismic "activity"...
If you build this solar facility in the desert, for the lifetimes of every person alive that 6,000 acres is ecologically DESTROYED.
Don't exaggerate please...parking parabolic mirror arrays above ground doesn't destroy anything...life goes on around it. There is not digging, no blasting, no discharge waters, no chemicals (save for the occasional weed killer), nothing like that.
As evidence, I would point to the communities, who LOVE it.
I have never heard of people who love it, except for the ones selling the mineral rights...the operations are notoriously shoddy, huge truck convoys often running overloaded through country roads, containment ponds that leak heavy metals into streams and groundwaters, and disasters like the sludge release in TN...
I mean look how absurd the conversation has become...you are pointing out ecological concerns with solar and telling us that strip mining is just fine...the world is upside down for you it seems.
Tell you what, just google the two subjects and see what comes up for solar and then strip mining on the ecological front...
Al |
