US counties are blocking the future of renewable energy: These maps and graphics show how.

Source: Splenda

10 Comments

  1. duke_of_alinor on

    For many companies this is a fight for survival. On the green side it’s a fight for what is right. Guess who will try harder.

  2. Wall of text with no graphs or maps.

    Should read the whole article by a journalist that probably knows nothing about the topic to understand which links are relevant and which are not.

  3. revolution2018 on

    Let them, it’s not enough to keep the fossil fuel industry alive. We can kill the industry while they are dependent on it just as well as if they transition to renewables. When the fuel stops coming they’ll switch.

    What we need is federal subsidies for companies that operate on 100% renewable energy… Incentivize them to move out of places that won’t drop the ban.

  4. Interesting that there’s no clear political pattern of the restrictions. Apparently some are stronger than others, because San Bernadino in eastern California is tagged, yet Edwards Sanborn Solar Storage Project just went live there. But Texas’s lack of restrictions is helping the massive growth in renewables there. Given that the El Paso area and east is about the best solar site in the US according to the article maps, hopefully that’ll mean some more major solar projects in that area.

  5. FivePoppedCollarCool on

    > common concerns about wind turbines included health impacts from a swishing noise made by the blades

    🤣

  6. Mission_Search8991 on

    It’s amazing how Redneck-America hates anything new, but, then again, that is the textbook definition of being a conservative.

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