Thank you, you just proved you are a wealthy person.
Thank you.

…OR, the less knowledge, the less you know, the higher the cost.

It depends on whether you are paid or paying.

Bitumen from oil sands, pretty much just asphalt. Basically what is generally left over after petroleum refining is completely, usually used to pave roads.

I never worried much about a pipeline break because the stuff would harden and turn solid as it cooled. Also about the same thing we, America, refine for Venezuela. I once drilled through a kilometer of the stuff offshore Angola, within sight of Luanda. We could have paved most of the roads in Angola if it had been worth producing. Or we could have sold it to America at low price because pretty much only we Americans can get much other good out of it.

I guess China can too, although they may just burn it.

David for paved roads

Call it 12 square miles. 3 miles by 4 miles out of Escambia County’s 875 square miles, less than 1.5%. (Not that it would have to be on land, folks would throw fits but Escambia bay or Perdido Bay could probably float it. Or imagine placing the solar panels above our roads, parking lots, rooftops.)

Some solar panels CAN pass enough light to allow crop growth the panels. Imagine if a farmer were certain of good, steady income from solar over the fields — possibly more than earned from normal crop sales while still making crops, including protection from frost and irrigation system built in by contract.

It might never happen, but it certainly wouldn’t be the end of the world if all benefitted.

David for people

Actually, it was the oil industry with their hydraulic fracturing — which President Biden doesn’t intend to shut down although I think he wants to avoid it on federal lands for now.

And the practice started under President George W. Bush and was encouraged under President Obama or at the very least not discouraged. It had pretty much shut down under President Trump due to lower demand caused by economic shutdown and greater fuel efficiency from LED lights (a GWB initiative, continued under BHO despite opposition by DJT because he hated all things Obama — at least as long as BHO got any credit for them). Also due to more efficient engines in cars (many previous presidents supporting, DJT opposed of course) and electric cars and wind and solar innovations and production (more DJT opposition, in part because he thought the generators and other components made in Pensacola are Chinese).

Government works best for the people with continuity, understanding, and sanity.

David for those who build rather than destroy

Why y’all want to disbelieve anything that doesn’t fit your narrative? Lol

Seems sheeplike, to me.

Megawatts. Megawatts are power, energy per unit time. Megawatt-hours are just a certain amount of energy. During prime solar hours a 74 megawatt solar power system produces 74 Megawatt-hours in one hour, again the next hour, and for years to come — while the sun shines at its peak, less before and after. You need some way to store it in times of plenty and/or low demand, get it whatever the current demand.

In Florida, the average home uses around 1,110 kWh of electricity per year. Some times of the day or year, nearly no power is used, other times much more.

Natural gas is good for instantaneous demand. Converting electricity from solar power excess into methane or hydrogen would be good. Batteries and pumped hydro work fairly well but are expensive. One interesting method of storage involves charging electric cars when there is plenty and they aren’t being driven, using them as power supply when needed and not being used. You’d have to make sure you didn’t draw then too far down for the times they were being driven and not hooked to the power grid. As more electric vehicles are used, this becomes much more viable.

David for better batteries