This came through my feed today about how Florida leads the southeast in solar capacity.

"Well, gosh Dave. Why so down on Florida?"

Well, it's "the Sunshine State," and it's the third largest state in the country by population. It is one of the most vulnerable states, if not the most vulnerable.

Then check out this little article from a week ago.

Florida isn't even in the top half of U.S. states in terms of renewable energy sources.

Florida isn't leading, it's lagging.

This is a useful site to compare states (solar only), though you have to look at the pdfs to get the details. But an interesting data point in Florida's report is:

At 114 MW, Wildflower Solar Energy Center in Arcadia is among the largest solar installations in Florida. Completed by Lightsource bp in 2018, this solar project has enough electric capacity to power more than 13876 homes.

JEA, Jacksonville's publicly own utility has an 1100+ acre site of a decommissioned and demolished coal generation facility that has been sitting idle for years. It has an existing utility grid connection! The site already has a federal permit for utility scale power generation. That's enough land for roughly 150MW of generation capacity, which would make it "among the largest solar installations in Florida."

But, no.

They're planning to put a natural gas generator there, and sell most of the land for development.

Because, Florida.

We deserve everything that's going to happen to us.

Well, not the poor and underserved. Not the Democrats.

But all those rich Republicans who've been running this state into the ground for more than a generation? They deserve everything that's coming to them, Category 5 storms, "sunny day flooding," "nuisance flooding," repetitive flooding, flash flooding, beach erosion, salt water intrusion to the Floridan aquifer, the list goes on. They deserve all of it.

Bastards.

Originally posted at Nice Marmot 13:39 Thursday, 1 August 2024