Great analysis Rob. Another cost not included is the fact that funding for further work on this boondoggle runs out in June. So the legislature will have to approve another half million or more to keep putting more wasted man hours, and wasted employee morale, into this or some other carbon reduction scheme. How about letting Mother Nature take care of it? Vermont’s forests offset all of Vermont’s emissions, making Vermont a net carbon reducer or sink. If the GWSA recognized sequestration as well as emissions all we would need to do is keep planting trees, in Vermont or elsewhere. As I wrote in 2016 planting 106 trees per year has the same benefit as a 5 kw rooftop solar array at about 1\10 the cost.
Great analysis Rob. Another cost not included is the fact that funding for further work on this boondoggle runs out in June. So the legislature will have to approve another half million or more to keep putting more wasted man hours, and wasted employee morale, into this or some other carbon reduction scheme. How about letting Mother Nature take care of it? Vermont’s forests offset all of Vermont’s emissions, making Vermont a net carbon reducer or sink. If the GWSA recognized sequestration as well as emissions all we would need to do is keep planting trees, in Vermont or elsewhere. As I wrote in 2016 planting 106 trees per year has the same benefit as a 5 kw rooftop solar array at about 1\10 the cost.
https://vtdigger.org/2016/04/04/steve-thurston-shining-some-light-on-the-dark-side-of-solar/