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jpak

(41,761 posts) Fri Feb 1, 2019, 09:50 AM Feb 2019

MEGA SUN: Gigantic solar farms proposed for the Rochester region

https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2019/01/24/gigantic-solar-farms-planned-rochester-region/2666009002/

A half-dozen large solar farms, including three behemoths that would cover 1,000 acres or more, are planned for the Rochester-Finger Lakes region.

The behemoths, in Caledonia, Mount Morris and Byron, are far larger than any solar installation that now exists in New York state.

On a sunny afternoon, the three giant farms would be able to turn out more electricity than the venerable Ginna nuclear power plant just northeast of Rochester, and could satisfy the needs of two-thirds of the households in Monroe County.

The biggest of them, the Excelsior Energy Center in the Genesee County town of Byron, would cover 2,000 acres, 10 times the size of the average New York agricultural farm.

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Farmin' Fotons Blues Heron Feb 2019 #1

Blues Heron

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Fri Feb 1, 2019, 09:54 AM

Feb 2019

yessiree bubba! We need to put these in everywhere and anywhere we can. The planet is burning/flooding/freezing/canfield oceaning from CO2 spewin' energy sources.

"On a sunny afternoon, the three giant farms would be able to turn out more electricity than the venerable Ginna nuclear power plant just northeast of Rochester, and could satisfy the needs of two-thirds of the households in Monroe County. "

Sounds good lets do it

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