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Anyone know about this app, called Dust? (Note: I don't think it's the secure messaging app). It's apparently for regional burns (mini-Burning Man events). A burn I'm attending is going to do all their organizing, messaging, mapping, etc. using the Dust app.
I fucking hate apps. I mean, some are okay. I hate everything in the world shoving an app at you, mostly because nearly every such app requires a significant chunk of personal data, then needs permissions it shouldn't have, and almost certainly resells my data or keeps it just in case the company needs extra cash.
So... how do I find this stuff out? It's not a major app; maybe a few thousand or tens of thousands of people ever use it, so I'm not finding any info about it by online searching. Admittedly, my google-fu (well, ddg-fu) might be lacking.
If you have any info about how predatory or chill this app is, or hints where I can find such info, I hope you'll share.
The top of the tower was the brightest earthbound thing I’ve ever seen, the photo doesn’t come close to doing it justice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent_Dunes_Solar_Energy_Project
We are fighting a misplaced solar project in my county right now.
We have class one and class two agricultural soils deposited over centuries by a riparian system that our regional energy supplier wants to place a huge project on.
The TL;DR is, I think they figured all the old hippies in this county would greenlight it without looking at it too closely. 🙄
I do some small-scale farming in the area in question, and the soil is absurdly good. Putting it into solar would lock up beautiful, productive soil for at least two decades, and also create runoff (and flooding) issues, for those who live downstream as well as deposit who-knows-what particulates into the soil and fresh water.
I'm all for solar projects that don't sit on prime agricultural soil. I know that there is an ecosystem in this Nevada project that was affected by this array, but IMO, this seems like a *much* better site for a large-scale project than tying up prime farmland in the Midwest.
@arisummerland this story from California seems promising. Farmers here are exporting water in the most inefficient way possible, as Alfalfa. Solar can replace that? I’ve heard some crops and livestock actually do better under solar panels, which seems like a win.
https://grist.org/climate-energy/farmers-are-making-bank-harvesting-a-new-crop-solar-energy/
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