Sentences with phrase «because of the solar farms»

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I'm a big proponent of classroom education and never would have pictured myself as a home - schooling parent, but if anything could convince me to change my tune, it's a science teacher opposing solar farms because they might suck up too much energy from the sun.

Woodland, North Carolina, has a nice big chunk of land near the highway that would be just perfect for putting in a new solar farm, but it looks like that won't be happening because several town residents objected to the plan, which some of them said they opposed on the grounds that the solar farm might «suck up all the energy from the sun.»

These properties make the cells ideal for things like windows or roofs, although they are probably less suitable for large - scale commercial applications, such as solar farms, because they need more area to produce the same amount of electricity as more typical silicon - based solar cells.

Because of the power of the lake effect, the federal investigators described such solar farms as «mega-traps» in their report.

When power needs to be taken out of the flywheels - because a cloud crosses in front of the sun for example and a solar farm stops producing power for a short while - the motor shifts to generator mode and converts kinetic to electrical energy, feeding it into the grid.

Southern Europe is still almost a no - go area for investors because of retroactive policy changes, most recently those affecting solar farms in Italy.

The potential of wind and solar energy is almost limitless, because solar alone can provide 100 folds energy requirement of the US, and wind can supply 40 x the energy required with a turbine on every farm.

As a power «add on», solar «farms» are useful but could never play anything more than a small part of the grid system because of their inflexible and unreliable nature.

On - shore wind and solar farms remain the most popular means of generating electricity; although no one would doubt that there remains a very vocal minority who remain opposed, many because of vested interests in fossil fuels.

One easy target, because of its good «visuals» and absence of technical obscurity, would be to show non-performing wind turbines and weed - overgrown solar - panel farms.

Renewable energy advocates responded that the Breakthrough findings had to be wrong because it takes so much longer to build a nuclear power plant — with much of the protracted timeframes owing to construction delays — than, say, a solar or wind farm.

For example, Georgia Power will save Georgians several hundred million dollars because of its Advanced Solar Initiative, which buys power from rural solar farms across the sSolar Initiative, which buys power from rural solar farms across the ssolar farms across the state.

Malaria would be almost non existent, food would be more plentiful, fewer wind farms / solar / biofuel systems and we would be avoiding any AGW / Climate Indulgences because people like Pachauri would be oiling railway engines or trying to get their porno books published [and hopefully failing miserably] and the likes of Hansen, Mann, Jones on the dole queue........