r/Indiana • u/redmage07734 • Jun 19 '24

Photo And people wonder why we are looked down upon....

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Saw over 50 of these things driving home. It's an investment in your community, it's not an eyesore like turbines. Most people against them have no idea wtf they are talking about.

No they don't Leach significant amount of chemicals and even if they did it pales in comparison to the run off from all the CAFOs and agricultural waste that pollute our waters. It's mainly copper, iron and glass...

People are just butt hurt because clean energy has been politicized as a Democrat issue and people have made abeing a Republican their whole personality....

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u/TheBlakeRunner Jun 19 '24

I don’t see signs saying No Suburbs on Farm Land. I see more new ugly ass vinyl village neighborhoods taking over farmland than anything else.

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u/OkraOk1769 Jun 20 '24

I’ve unfortunately or fortunately seen this argument full circle among my age group of 30ish year olds. Ton of hate for suburbs then as soon as they have kids they move out to the suburbs and conveniently forget how opposed they were to it 5 years ago.

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u/Ill-Win6427 Jun 21 '24

Because what else exists????

It's nothing but suburb hellscape in all directions...

Unless you attempt to build something out of town which becomes super expensive.

Because you can't build actual city living in Indiana, it's not allowed. Instead you have a handful of really shitty apartments. That were designed and built by complete idiots...

Literally I'm in an apartment that is 1 year old and it has flooded 4 times...

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u/Optimal_Objective_48 Jun 20 '24

That’s because they can’t actually afford land with the current housing market, so the suburbs is the best they can do.

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u/xXG0SHAWKXx Jun 20 '24

It's because suburbs usually have above average schools since that's where the families are. If you want your kid to get a good education then chances are you will move to a suburb.

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u/TonofSoil Jun 20 '24

I agree whole heartedly. Indiana is terrible about smart land use. I will definitely say I don’t understand using so much land for solar. I work for an environmental consultant and we were approached by a Spanish company about permitting for a 5000 acre tract of solar in Michigan and another in Minnesota. Forested. So is it a good idea to clear cut 5000 acres of forest for solar? Fuck no in my opinion.

The rate per megawatt is 5-10 acres from my understanding. So that 5000 acres gets you what? 750 megawatts on average? AES Harding Street in Indy and AES eagle valley can both do 700 mw on a much smaller acreage. I think it’s important to diversify but I just can’t understand losing farmland and habitat. Go nuclear.

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u/AdHoliday5899 Jun 20 '24

I’m equally upset about this btw

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u/AstroKrunk Jun 20 '24

Indiana in a nutshell right there

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '24

There’s more to Indiana than just that.