Posted on 03/28/2015 1:36:07 AM PDT by grundle
JACKSON, N.J. (AP) — A theme park plans to cut down more than 18,000 trees for the construction of what it says will be the largest solar farm in New Jersey.
Six Flags Great Adventure says the facility will generate 21.9 megawatts, or enough to power about 3,100 homes, and capable of meeting all of the park's needs.
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Why did they have to cut trees ? Could they not just go to the lumber yard for wood ?
I can believe the whole NE was covered in trees; I live on the edge of the Meadowlands here in NJ, and at one time it was woods. The forest was burned to deal with highwaymen robbing travelers on the plank roads (corduroy roads, built with felled trees) as they headed west from Jersey City and NYC (during colonial times). The trees recovered, and the site really was meadows (instead of the swamp there today) until the 1950s. At that time, a hurricane broke the dike walls holding back the Hackensack River, and we were left with the brackish marsh you see today. You can still see segments of the dike wall, and at low tide you can see thousands of tree stumps exposed on the mud flats.
BTW, the little town to the north of me (North Arlington, NJ) was home to the first steam engine ever used in the colonies; it de-watered a copper mine that pre-dated the Revolution. When I bought my home I went over there and retrieved some copper ore for a nice ring on my lawn (the stones are oxidized; light green like the Statue of Liberty). Just as Pennsylvania people had issues with underground coal mines screwing with their properties, that little town had problems when old air shafts that had been filled with rubbish decades ago started to collapse. Peoples’ foundations were damaged, sinkholes opened in their yards, and despite two remediation efforts there are still problems. People in that area can’t put in in-ground pools, and they have no storm drains on the streets.
They did that initially, but they used too much of it.
On a serious note, these furnaces would sometimes run literally for months on end (24 hours per day); imagine how much wood that consumed.
Called an “unsecured trade” whose Deliver Date, Location, and Other vital data are left blank to satisfy the great rejoinder coined by Madame in chief Clinton (see my tag line for specifics!)!
Wind Turbines = chopped birds
Solar Farms = homeless birds
It’s amazing what FedGov economic distortion can “accomplish”.
Y’all see.. I’m a gonna cut my left arm off - so’s I can replace it with this here ‘bionic’ arm I built myself in ma basement from spare parts... of COURSE it’ll work! I’m a genius, you know!”
Are they going to replace those cut trees?
How many “undocumented” will be hired to keep the lenses and mirrors CLEAN?
Dusty, pollen-coated glass won’t “make” much electricity.
Trees around the house can be a good thing if they are the right kind in the right place. Those 100 foot pines should not be kept in urban areas, but a good shady oak far enough away from the house on the west side can really help with the electric bill in the summer. A good rule is if a tree will drop large limbs on the house and cause damage, it is too close.
Unless the solar farm uses mirrors to concentrate the light on a central collector. Then you have flaming birds.
This is just freaking brilliant.
Of course, a modern compact nuclear reactor could generate the same amount of power in a lot less space, and the park could use that power at night.
“Theme park will replant 25,000 trees over 7 years”
Story updated...
Further proof that environmentalists actually hate plants and the environment
Trees ARE Solar heat.
Solar batteries, you just cut them down, then cut them up, and they can release the heat inside your home during the Winter.
In the greater Lake Tahoe area between California and Nevada, most of the forests were cut down during the gold rush days in the mid-1800s. Most of what you see there now is new growth over the last hundred years.
Very interesting. I read it all. You are curious about where you live. Many prefer to be oblivious. I am aware of how my area was developed and the history.
Thanks; I love history, and can’t pass an old road or foundation without wondering what it was for...
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