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Clarkstown is pushing tobuild solar panels on a seven-acre section of a landfill that could cover almost 20 percent of the municipality’s current electrical usage:
…I’m a huge fan of solar for a supplement. It should be on (if feasible) all roofs residential, commercial, and government, but solar fields in New York are an environmental disaster. To turn such large areas from green to lifeless and lay out heat generating, glaring, panels made from toxic material (solar panels have to be broken down when spent like fluorescents and batteries) is not so good, a natural gas plant is less damaging.”
—John Taggart
This is absolutely fantastic news.”
—Robert Ward Kurkela
Since it can’t be developed for a long time the landfill is a good place for solar panels. Whether or not it is economically feasible is still to be determined. The question I would ask now is, why gas produced by the fill is not being captured? A landfill that in not far from where I lived in Illinois has been recovering substantial gas for years with only a very small footprint collecting facility…”
—Alex Umrichin
It works, it’s just not currently at the stage where it can covers the full need.”
—Zach Harrison
…Don’t forget that all those acres of solar panels have to be fabricated out of rare elements that are very difficult to obtain and extremely expensive, much more so than coal or oil.”
—Klaatu Boradanicto
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