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Podcast: Right Side Up hosts, Paul Bean cover looming loss of farm and forest to solar panels

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First-time ever co-production of ‘Right Side Up’ and ‘CreeMee Cast’

Bill Huff, co-Host of Right Side Up, visits the Creemee Cast studio in Northfield last week.

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  1. But look on the bright side the State banned those ugly billboards but graciously allow solar farms and worthless windmills.

  2. I felt it was time to share with your audience about a very distinct fact that has escaped the solar panel advocates. As a forestry student in the very first UVM Forest Management class of 1969, we took a 3-credit course that included an in depth look at aerial photogrammetry used to study large tracts of forested land. A graph in our textbook showed the average number of cloud free days in a year for all fifty states. Arizona had the most, and Vermont (drum roll please) was last with just 5 days. Common sense keeps escaping these green energy advocates.

  3. Vermont trees and co2

    1. Vermont tree cover area

    Note: 1 Hectare is 0.01 Sq. kilom

    24,000 square kM = 2.4 million hectare
    Tree covered = 2M hectare

    2. Co2 removal rate from trees
    Source:

    https://onetreeplanted.org/blogs/stories/how-much-co2-does-tree-absorb

    Forest removal rate, median =17tco2/ha/year
    MT = .91 t; removal rate = 15.5 MT co2/ha/year

    Vermont removal
    15.5 MTco2/ha/year x 2M ha = 31M MT / year

    3. Vermont Co2 net emissions (emissions minus removal by trees)

    Vermont co2 emission 8 M MT / year

    8M MT/ year -31M MT / year = – 23M MT / year

    Source: https://vermontbiz.com/news/2021/may/20/vermont-makes-progress-carbon-reduction-new-state-report

    4. WTF:

    1. It is stated Vermont emits about 1/100th of the carbon emissions of the United States.
    2. Vermont is largely tree covered with an estimated annual Co2 removal rate almost four times greater than its annual Co2 emissions.

    What am I missing?