[HN Gopher] $1B Solar and Battery Storage Project Breaks Ground ...
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       $1B Solar and Battery Storage Project Breaks Ground in Utah
        
       Author : m463
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2024-09-24 21:10 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (electrek.co)
        
       | KennyBlanken wrote:
       | Meanwhile, idiot boomers in two different communities I'm part of
       | are screaming about toxicity, explosions, fires, blah blah NIMBY.
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       | Both areas have grid stability issues and battery systems were
       | going to be installed to address that.
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       | Both power companies eventually gave up.
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       | One group even fought a 'solar farm', spreading the usual
       | bullshit about "cutting down trees but claiming to be green,
       | GOTCHA!" (panels rapidly exceed a tree's carbon fixation), but
       | with an added twist claiming the panels were a fire risk and
       | would leach toxic chemicals into the groundwater - two things
       | that are entirely made up.
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       | All because they didn't want it near their neighborhood.
       | 
       | I'm so tired of bored boomers showing up to information meetings
       | and acting like _____ is going to be the end of the world - and
       | the press who seem magnetically drawn to them, while ignoring
       | actual experts and scientists.
        
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