Fighting 'Solar Farm' Installation

[dodge man]

The tornado recognized its green energy and skips right over it.

Just my opinion here but these articles coming out with negative local environmental impact of a solar farm are grasping at straws. The mining of the minerals and energy required to make them are valid points but they steal the sun from surrounding ground or cause cancer is just making stuff up.

 

[sea2summit]

What happens when a tornado hits a large solar panel field?

Not sure where you're trying to go with this.

 

[5030]

Our issue here (and why we successfully fought and won over a massive solar installation was), here in SE Michigan, the farm ground is very fertile and productive and a solar install would take X number of acres out of production. Real simple.

Never like the term 'solar farm' anyway. It's not a farm at all, it's an industrial installation. Companies that do that stuff like to use that term to make them seem palatable. Nothing more.

The Lord ain't making any more farm ground last time I checked.

 

[orezok]

The Lord ain't making any more farm ground last time I checked.

And the Lord isn’t making any more oil or coal either. BUT he is making lots of sunlight!

 

[5030]

And the Lord isn’t making any more oil or coal either. BUT he is making lots of sunlight!

At my age, running out of dino juice is the least of my concerns.

 

[5030]

You take enough fertile land out of production and at some point people starve or have to revert to the 'Soylent Green' existence.

Besides, solar installations are inherently fugly.

 

[Hughman]

the farm ground is very fertile and productive and a solar install would take X number of acres out of production. Real simple.

Is it taking the acreage out of production or simply producing an alternate crop (sunlight/energy)? Do we really want to regulate exactly which crops can be grown or what a person can do on his own land?

 

[JamesHW]

We were offered 7k per year a while back for our field not long before our town enacted a moratorium on solar installations other than residential. We turned it down as we didn’t want to lose our cleared acreage. It looks like the town has completed a law allowing the installations with a lot of rules about screening from neighbors, etc. that allow them to reject applications for a number of reasons including the agricultural value of the land. The only concern I had at the time was that the field would have lights all night.

 

[2manyrocks]

The tornado question is pretty smart because you have to wonder how far a tornado could blow solar panels and what kind of damage could be caused? A flying solar panel could be lethal.

 

[orezok]

At my age, running out of dino juice is the least of my concerns.

Well, what about your kids, grandkids and great grandkids?