{"id":1860,"date":"2011-06-24T10:54:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T14:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/no-land-for-solar-in-georgia.html"},"modified":"2011-06-24T10:54:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T14:54:01","slug":"no-land-for-solar-in-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/no-land-for-solar-in-georgia.html","title":{"rendered":"No land for solar in Georgia?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/a>\nNelson Hawk, after an excellent panel presentation at the\n\nGeorgia Solar Summit<\/a>,\nrepeated the old canard that there’s not much land available for solar in the\nsoutheast.\nI couldn’t stand it, and blurted out “parking lots!”\nAnd airports, and road rights of way, and, let me think: rooftops!\nOr waste water treatment plants, like\n\nValdosta just used,<\/a>\nor barns on the north edges of fields, or the acreage\nGeorgia Power is wasting on nuclear plants, or….\n

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\n\nGretchen Quarterman and Dan Corrie<\/small>\n<\/td><\/tr><\/table>\nDan Corrie notes that Cobb EMC bought up\n3600 acres in Ben Hill County for a coal plant.\nThat acreage could generate quite a bit of solar power!\n

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