Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!
I was just up in Wisconsin with my wife and mother. My mother was born and raised in the area. A lot of my mother's family still live in that area of Central Wisconsin.
One of the big news this summer up there was the airport in Wautoma, Wisconsin. They have a small general aviation airport there with lots of acreage around the airport. So they came up with with an idea to utilize that acreage.
Except for the runways and taxiways, they are going to put solar panels all around the airport to generate electricity for the town and area. The city is going to put solar panels on around two-hundred acres, which should generate ninety-nine megawatts of power, to power around fifty-thousand homes!
I thought it was a fantastic idea and a good way to use land but otherwise would be unusable. But it seems a lot of people I'm town don't like it. I would suspect that most of those people whom are complaining, never go out to the airport anyway!
Seems like a great way to produce electricity free from the sun without having to generate it. And it's going to be on land which no one goes out to anyway. Unless you're a pilot, or a family member of a pilot, we have no reason to go to a general aviation airport, so why would it matter to them?
You might say well it's going to cost the town money. That's not the case since a private company will build and provide the maintenance, in exchange for the ensuing profit it would regenerate. So the local taxpayers would not be burdened with increased costs. Seems like a good idea to me.
William James Roop
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