No. They are not.

They are using the suggestion that they might to delay decarbonization.

Glad you finally figured it out.

Oh. So bad faith and stupidity.

The modern banking apparatus would devour any fixed standard currency in a few weeks by manipulating the value. It would be like being paid ij bitcoin. Every time the plebs needed to buy more than usual, money would be worthless. Every time they were short on money and needed to sell it would be super valuable.

The only fix is redistribution. Wealth exponentially agglomerates, you have to spread it out once it does or your economic system breaks.

It was called horse and sparrow before that.

https://smractionplan.ca/content/alberta

Are you being bad faith or are to too stupid to use a search engine?

The premium you’re placing on avoiding covering 1m^2 with a solar panel that produces a time-averaged 40W at $20/W is about $800

An overhead agrivoltaic system costs about $800k/ha at ~30% coverage (about double the price per watt of single axis or 3x fixed tilt) or $80/m^2 and increases yields by 10-300% if used on crops that benefit or in situations where water is scarce ir heatwaves are likely (hmm, wonder if that will be relevant). Cover 10m and you’ve saved 1m^2 ti 6m^2 of farmland for $800

So if it’s worth spending public money to avoid the former, then it’s worth doing the latter even without the electricity.

It also produces >2x as much electricity.

So which is it. Are you too stupid to comprehend basic arithmetic, or do you not actually care about land use, cost and enguneering challenges?

That sure was a lot of words for “I haven’t looked at Alberta lately”.

Also the agrivoltaic cost pearl clutching is deranged. “What if it costs a third as much as what I’m proposing like already built projects at the same latitude with worse solar resource.”

The electricity generation industry measures everything in power because the main constraint is powerto meet peak load. A 1GW gas peaker that is only going to be used for 400 hours a year is 1GW. So is a 1GW coal plant that runs at 40% power 6000 hours a year. So is a 1GW solar farm that outputs peak power 1000 hours a year and 20-80% for 3000 hours.

Performatively misunderstanding this concept is just as bad, if not worse, than not including the duration figure and is usually done to try and pretend the 1GW gas peaker running at 4% capacity factor for two hours a day during summer at peak load somehow cannot be replaced by a 500MW solar farm producing at 17% and a 500MW 2hr battery with energy to spare.

If you see 2.8GW storage, and you trust it’s not just a sham project. Then you know that somewhere in the range of 2.8GW to 10GW of nameplate renewable capacity can be added to the grid. 20GWh doesn’t convey any information.

Ideally you’d mention both (and include efficiency, seasonality, input power etc.), but this particular pearl clutch is less correct than the headline and is rooted in coal and gas industry propaganda. If only one number is mentioned, then capacity is the most informative.

Anyone who is 89 or younger was 9 when wwii ended. They did not fight in wwii. You are talking about some combination of silent generation and baby boomers.

Most if the US government is baby boomers or gen x. Only a handful are over 77

This only works if you pretend the organic farm depletes soil carbon and emits NO2 at the same rate as the fertilizer farm, fugitive methane doesn’t exist (anything with fossil gas in its upstream suplly chain has its emissions under-reported by a factor of about 3), and that the vast tracts of land poisoned and degraded by fracking are completely fine.

You also have to cherry pick small scale lifestyle blocks for your analysis and assume that the land previously degraded by industrial agriculture could be used further at the same yield.

Grid penetration isn’t capacity factor. Learn to read.

Also look up one of the thousands of agrivoltaics projects where it improves yield and reduces water.

And Canada. Canada is precisely where “plans” for new nuclear are being used as an excuse to delay wind (even temporarily banning it).

Look out! Communists are coming for your toothbrush. Better vote for harsher penalties for modifying stuff you bought. The DMCA still allows throwing away or disconnecting the computer locking you out of your heated seats.

Yes, many much easier ways. A propane tank for one. Wet, high CO2 methane is really hard to make explode.

Do get a CO detector though.

You can buy gas from anyone. Even make your own in a digester.

Your gas stove is not cryptographically locked to one gas company.

Yup. Definite concern troll behavior.

Pretending the worst prices in the most expensive place in the world for solar are normal. Then pulling the hostage shield politics card in a thread about public spending. Now crying victim.

Completely standard conservative reactionary behavior.

It’s always correct to dismiss concern trolls.

Wouldn’t it depend on the artificial structure and how much water you are adding?

Like a piece of foam painted with pure white IR-emissive CaCO2 is going to be >10 degrees cooler than a black panel with an air gap and glass.

There are likely tradeoffs (water and cost for the tree being the main downside).

Personally I think both is good https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/08/25/sunagri-reveals-agrivoltaics-performance-in-heat-waves/

Less water, more elecricity and cooler temps than either alone.

You’re just spreading propaganda.

If you don’t personally want a thing then just shut up rather than polluting a discussion about a completely different use case.

Wild concept: It’s possible to offer a fair price to someone who can. You don’t need to pay $20k for one day’s labour (although you probably do need to pay about $1k for an hour for a licensed electrician to inspect and do the final hookup if you want to AC feed for winter and cloudy days). You do not need to pay $1/W or wait years for grid tie if you have a battery and size for self consumption.

Given how thoroughly ripped off you are and how dismissive you are of the price people in civilised countries consider normal, I’ll assume you’re in the US. Signature solar sell panels for 31c/W hybrid off-grid inverters for $2k and batteries for $280/kWh. You can probably do better if you look around and don’t just listen to the door to door MLM scammers.

I’ve often wondered why more people aren’t just gaming the system.

“Yeah, the near-bankrupt coal plant I just bought is still a coal plant, ignore the wires running into it and that big dark blue surface over the coal pit is my tennis court.”