The oil refinery down the road is installing 100,000 solar panels

[NickB79]

They're going green, because they care about the environment, you see 🤣

https://www.hometownsource.com/sun_thisweek/free/flint-hills-resources-selects-arizona-company-to-install-100-000-plus-solar-panels/article_d1214ee2-d0a4-11ec-87c7-37c5802de16f.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share

Flint Hills Resources has selected Arizona-based DEPCOM Power to build what is believed to be the largest solar installation of its kind in the country, the company said in a press release today.

The estimated $75 million installation of at least 100,000 solar panels will help power the company’s Pine Bend refinery in Rosemount.

The 45-megawatt solar installation will connect directly to the refinery operations and is expected to help lower energy costs, improve energy efficiency and reduce emissions, the company said.

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Wow. Neat. By the way, I watch these many tornado videos via YouTube, and I'm amazed at almost in

all of them (the videos), you will see giant wind generators all across the landscape everywhere! And I laugh when our former president (TFG) ranted and raved against them, that they were a danger, etc., all kinds of nonsense.

[brush]

2. Ok. That's some kind of weird oxymoron.

[MineralMan]

3. Should that refinery not install solar?

I'm not sure I understand your point...

[NickB79]

4. Honestly? No

The longer we keep finding ways to crank out cheap oil, the worse we're cooking the planet.

We're already in the early stages of the 6th mass extinction event thanks to carbon emissions.

The only way we'll ever find the will to get off fossil fuels is through making them too expensive to keep burning.

And yes, I know my position isn't popular, especially with gas at $4/gal now. But the economic pain we're currently feeling is nothing compared to what's coming at 2C of warming by 2050.

[questionseverything]

5. Nuclear power plants should have windmills to generate power for the cooling system

[LeftInTX]

6. Parts of Texas have both oil rigs and wind turbines all mingling in the same property

https://www.albradenphoto.com/image/I0000cJzQPtUs0.Y

I guess if I could make money from my land, I would also do it both ways.
West Texas has both oil and wind resources.

South Texas just has oil, except for the coast.