How about we recognize every place is
the worst place for the water-risking land-taking hazardous methane pipeline,
and get on with
sun, wind, and water to power Florida, Georgia, Alabama,
and
all the other states?
According to
Stanford University researchers,
we can do that, and we can do it 100% by 2050, using
technology that’s already available.
For Florida, that’s 20% rooftop solar PV (half residential and half commercial and governmental),
47.9% solar PV plants, 10% concentrating solar plants, 5% onshore wind, 15% offshore wind, 1% each wave and tide, 0.1% hydroelectric.
So that’s 77.9% sun, 20% wind, 1% wave, 1% tide, and 0.1% hydro.
Requiring 0% nuclear, 0% coal, and 0% natural gas.
That’s right, Florida doesn’t need methane to shut down coal and nukes.
All the Sunshine State needs is sun, wind, and water.
With 355,500 construction jobs and 149,000 operation jobs,
$20.1 billion or 3% of Florida’s GDP saved in avoided health costs,
2,210 Floridans not dead from air pollution.
Oh, and 42.9% less energy used over all,
plus energy costs to customers cut more than in half.
Who are you going to believe?
Researchers at Stanford who have no financial stake in the outcome?
Or pipeline companies and utility companies that stand to profit from
taking Continue reading Less cost, more jobs, and better health with sun, wind, and water power for Florida, or a dirty destructive methane pipeline? →
Opposition to the Sabal Trail pipeline may be having more widespread effects.
The same day
FERC told Sabal Trail to pay attention to karst limestone sinkhole opposition,
Duke announced it wasn’t going to “modernize” that plant.
Two days later,
Sabal Trail told one of that opposition that it was considering
moving its Suwannee River crossing upstream, that is, away from Duke’s
Suwannee Plant,
Coincidence?
