Interest growing for solar power on farms in New Jersey

[bananas]

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/press/new_jersey/article_84b6b026-f81a-11de-93fb-001cc4c03286.html

Interest growing for solar power on farms in New Jersey
By DANIEL WALSH Staff Writer | Posted: Saturday, January 2, 2010 | 0 comments

DEERFIELD TOWNSHIP — A local farming family plans to lease nearly 100 acres of farmland for solar power development in this rural Cumberland County municipality.

The Sparacio family would place solar panels on 80 to 90 acres of farmland at Big Oak and Parvins Mill roads, and has joined with Millville-based Renewable Energy Resources to make it happen.

“I’m talking to a lot of farmers who want solar on their property,” said Gasper Sparacio, vice president of sales for Renewable Energy Resources. “As the small guys get eaten up, there’s nothing to do with the land. I’m a Realtor, too, but there’s no market to build.”

The Sparacio family has owned farmland in the Deerfield area for decades. Cousin Butch Sparacio runs a farm and farm stand just a few miles away that is famed locally for its annual strawberry harvest.

<snip>

[NNadir]

1. Oh good. Let's cover over farm land with cadmium telluride.

Good idea. Toxic land.

[w4rma]

2. Where does it say that cadmium telluride will be the thin film of choice in those solar cells?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell#Thin_films

[Wilms]

3. Better, ya know, to mine uranium and figure out what to do with the waste...any day now...any day...

[Name removed]

4. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[madokie]

5. No more nukes for you

ha ha :rofl:

Post some links to some of your peer reviewed work there big guy then we or I might listen to you a little bit more, otherwise shut your pie hole. Does such even exist??? Up to this point I've seen no evidence of anything except stooopid rants and brother I've read plenty of those.

have a great time with finding some links, as I would truly like to read what real nuclear scientist have to say about your ideas and that invention of yours. :hi:

[jpak]

9. Solar will save New Jersey - not the make-believe molten salt breeder reactor

:rofl:

[TxRider]

6. LOL

The ranchers in Texas have been making out like bandits leasing land for wind turbines.

And they can still graze it to boot so they lose nothing.

[kestrel91316]

10. ......nothing but the occasional dismembered cow when one of those puppies

flies apart........

:wow: :rofl:

Great. Now I've gone and pissed off the PETA wackos again.....

[OnlinePoker]

7. Another bad location

More power to them, but where the township is located in Cumberland County NJ only gets about 4.5 kwh/m2/day on average. This is the same whether you use photovoltaics or concentrating solar. It just doesn't make economic sense to build something where there is so little sunshine on a continuous basis.

http://www.nrel.gov/gis/solar.html

[kristopher]

8. Actually it makes a great deal of economic sense.

That's why the public utilities in NJ have been pushing solar for almost a decade. There is a pressing need for peaking power, especially in the summer. Solar is a cost effective means of meeting that demand while integrating seamlessly into one of the most densely populated areas of the nation.