ecmn | Stetson123 - 12/12/2025 09:22
Starting next summer construction will begin on a 1500 acre solar project of which we are a large contributor. With this comes over a million dollars a year of personal property tax that will help our dying community. Monetarily this is huge and eviromentaly this creates a great habitat for insects and small animals and will greatly restore the tilth of the land during the life of the solar. Many believe that there could potentially be toxic contamination to the soil due to highly hazardous chemicals leaching from the panels. This is misleading as in these commercial grade panels made in the US contain NO hazardous materials that can leach from the panels only silicon a natural sand compound. Once the panels are removed in 20 - 40 years the land will be restored back to its original use.
You got paid. Good for you. If they came at us with the kind of money that they talked about, it would be hard not to do it. Like you said in 20 years contract is over. Kids or grandkids could Farm for fun.
Many reasons to be skeptical, payday is the only reason for excitement.
solar energy is heavily subsidized. I have a hard time seeing it make 20 years. I'm skeptical of the funding that's supposed to be there for cleanup would actually be there for cleanup.
A million dollars tax would not save the town. A million dollars to a small town is a drop in the bucket. The cost of the infrastructure, maintenance, retiree benefits, business leaving..
No "hazardous waste" doesn't mean cleanup still won't be messy and complicated.
Solar has been studied a lot. Poor efficiency, in our area very long term to get return on investment, production is sensitive to conditions, easily damaged.
Edited by easymoney 12/13/2025 01:39
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Doing our part to cut production
