No surprise, the Winston-Salem Journal sees the possible solar farm in Davidson County as a big score. So big that the state should cough up some cash to subsidize Davidson’s $2 million in incentives.
Interesting too, that the Journal chides Davidson economic development director Steve Googe for secretiveness about the site of the solar farm, saying with “commissioners ready to spend major public dollars to land this solar farm, Googe should quickly release that information.”
Meanwhile, the N&R (no surprise, either) endorses wind power:
Researchers at Stanford University and the University of Delaware provide even more hope for our area: They found that the wind off the coast from Cape Cod, Mass., to Cape Hatteras could meet all the energy needs of the mid-Atlantic region’s nine coastal states and D.C. — and even provide 50 percent more.
They estimate 166,720 off-coast turbines would need to be built to capture the wind energy, but that they could be placed even if allotting for “exclusion zones,” areas for such things as shipping lanes, fishing and other needs.
