Windmill farm gets permit to kill eagles with their turbines (5 golden eagles over 5 years)

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14. All good ideas, all with limitations.

I'm proud of a 500kW two acre project I put together for a school district, it was done over existing parking lots, that's a must-do.

Many if not most rooftops aren't useful for solar, most often because of their limited load bearing capacity but other problems like shading or wrong orientation creep in.

When we try to put large solar in the deserts there are always environmental concerns (sigh) and large scale is almost necessarily utility run and more than a few progressives hate big utilities (sigh).

Then in terms of reducing demand, or reducing the need to burn fossil fuels, we have to use data, install smart meters but guess what? People are afraid of them!

Still, we are making great strides.

Jerry Brown just signed SB43 which allows an entity to use the grid to generate energy in one place and credit their meter in a different place.