Thoughts on mega wind and solar projects

[MossRoad]

Food for Thought -

https://www.agweb.com/news/business/farmland/solar-panel-plague-or-progress-controversy-explodes-farmland-disappears

From that article....

“Our area in Richland has gorgeous nature with abundant deer, ospreys, bald eagles, cranes, and you name it. We’re also a wonderful agriculture community, and it’s all the bigger shame because prime farmland is what they’re using for this solar project.”

I've never seen gorgeous nature in a mono-crop corn, bean, wheat or rice field. If anything, I've seen farmers complaining about deer eating their crops.

 

[gsganzer]

When I was looking to buy a place near Tishomingo, OK, they had a number of solar projects going in.

A drive around the local area showed most of the farmland to be fallow. Even cattle grazing was minimal. It's a relatively economically depressed area though.

I ended up backing out of the place I was looking at, partly due to the solar farms, but mainly due to the socio/economic reality of the area. If it's not solar farms, it will be data centers or whatever else provides income and tax base for that county.

 

[edgarrian]

When I was looking to buy a place near Tishomingo, OK, they had a number of solar projects going in.

A drive around the local area showed most of the farmland to be fallow. Even cattle grazing was minimal. It's a relatively economically depressed area though.

I ended up backing out of the place I was looking at, partly due to the solar farms, but mainly due to the socio/economic reality of the area. If it's not solar farms, it will be data centers or whatever else provides income and tax base for that county.

Sad truth.