Amend Michigan's laws to legalize "Community Solar" Farms/Cooperatives to help slow climate change.

We, concerned citizens of Michigan, request that the State's Electric Utility Regulatory laws
be amended, to legalize "Community Solar" PV farms, with no limit on the number of farms that communities can build and which would be eligible for a "Virtual net metering" service, provided by the local utility, for individual panel owners.
The Committee to legalize "Community Solar" Farm Cooperatives in Michigan is asking for your support of this petition to force a State-wide Ballot initiative vote in the next general election.
The underlying purpose for this initiative is to form an alliance of Solar Farms that would join together to help mitigate/slow climate change, by allowing Utilities to burn less coal, thereby decreasing CO2 emissions, as well as other pollutants.
If we do nothing, climate change may devastate our way of life and the future of mankind. There are many links that will clarify this subject matter at this address: http://www.starlightpower.net/CS_Petition.html
So, how can installing thousands, if not millions, of solar panels help slow climate change?
Briefly, when a solar panel comes on line, when the sun is shining, it back-feeds the electric grid with electricity. The electricity furnishes all of your electric needs, then sends any excess out to the grid, to be used by other electric customers. The panel output voltage is slightly higher than grid voltage.
When the electric utility generators see this higher voltage, the control system starts backing down the boilers, burning less coal, making less electricity. In effect the electricity produced by each panel will save around one and a half pounds of coal from being burned, every day (1kwh). The energy being produced by all the solar panels is being stored on the coal pile...thereby reducing pollution from the power plants.
CO2 levels in the Earth’s atmosphere is now at 400 parts per million (PPM). It has been rising since the beginning of the industrial revolution, when we began burning coal and oil to supply our industrial complex. CO2 is a greenhouse gas, which means it acts like a greenhouse surrounding our earth, trapping heat, which would normally radiate out into space.
As the heat builds up, there is a lot of it at the equator, where the Sun is directly over the ocean. Water starts evaporating from the surface of the ocean due to the Suns heating effect, and rises up many thousands of feet into the upper atmosphere, dragging tons of water vapor with it. These tons of water has recently been named "Atmospheric Rivers" (AR) by NASA.
These ARs were first observed in the mid-1990s. Since then, the ARs have continued to intensify every year. When a column of moisture laden hot air rises, it is caused to start spinning, by the rotation of the Earth, called the Coriolis effect. These spinning vortices eventually turn into tornadoes and hurricanes...which are dangerous to all life and property on the planet.
Our human species need to work together to decrease greenhouse gasses in our atmosphere. Installing Solar panels everywhere we can, should help slow climate change.
Please sign this petition and pass the word along to whoever will listen.
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