Didn't explore solar beyond the fact I know they go through batteries quickly in their life cycle. Thanks for pointing that out. Had not thought of the leeching while the panels was in operation. Not that I am a environmentalist. Speaking of them, environmentalist where the heck are they why aren't they up in arms? Over the whole situation?
where are they? listening to the rethoric of how good this is without being given any of the negative information available to those interested in looking into it.
they *beleive* everything they're told about it, whole cloth, without any digging.
then its as simple as calling people pointing out the negatives as "denyers" or whatever the hot word of the moment is, and its a nice closed loop echo chamber.
michigan perfect example.
Dem's pass 100% on party lines without a single GOP vote laws requiring 100% renewable energy by 2040. wretchedSh!tmer signs it into law.
of course the sales pitch is how much money you're gonna save on your elecytric bill from all this "renewable" green energy.
utility companies are now required BY LAW to spend hundreds and hundreds of billion's installing solar and wind farms.
Utility companies put in rate increases non stop to offset the cost of said hundreds and hundreds of billions of state required investments. basically every year and sometimes 2x a year.
MPSC (michigan public services comission ) of course all but rubber stamps every rate increase by the two major utility companies - again by law they pretty much have to since the utilities have ZERO choice on this infrastructure spending timeline/scale.
consumers are paying out the rear for these new "cheaper" options they were sold, and the current DEM canidate for govenor - our AG Dana Nessel - is campaining on "investigating all these rate hikes and reining in the utility companies"
like... they're not the reason the rates are up to begin with, and that there's no investigation into the utilities that are gonna stop the rates from continuing to go up and out grid reliability to go down.
and you really wanna set the greenies off their rail?
one of the bigger solar farm projects up north is set to clear cut 420 acres of pristine state forest to put in a solar farm.
but this is the "big green adgenda"
smdh