solar panels

[_ludwigm]

A US town has rejected a proposal for a solar farm following public concerns.
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During the Woodland Town Council meeting, one local man, Bobby Mann, said solar farms would suck up all the energy from the sun and businesses would not go to Woodland
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Jane Mann, a retired science teacher, said she was concerned the panels would prevent plants in the area from photosynthesizing, stopping them from growing.
Ms Mann said she had seen areas near solar panels where plants are brown and dead because they did not get enough sunlight.
She also questioned the high number of cancer deaths in the area, saying no one could tell her solar panels didn't cause cancer.

- http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 71526.html -

From the comments:
"Solar panels may also cause Donald Trump or Sarah Palin."

[_ldsfaqs]

Solar Technology should be on HOMES and Businesses..... NOT on "farms".
Local City councils should be enacting building ordinances to encorage the transfer to cleaner tech and use of space.
All farms do is keep power company's in power, are inefficient, harm the environment, waste space and energy (cause it has to travel) etc.

Further, "Panels" are obsolete.... there's better solar tech out there.

Every home should be fitted with Solar Tech, Power generating Windmills, Tankless Water Heaters, Waste collection for Fertilization, Bins for recycling everything, Filtration systems for cleaning water and softening, etc.

[_Lemmie]

Every home should be fitted with Solar Tech, Power generating Windmills, Tankless Water Heaters, Waste collection for Fertilization, Bins for recycling everything, Filtration systems for cleaning water and softening, etc

Like yours is, right?

[_Lemmie]

Solar Technology should be on HOMES and Businesses..... NOT on "farms".
Local City councils should be enacting building ordinances to encorage the transfer to cleaner tech and use of space.

Reference please, or explain the scientific reasoning. As usual, legitimate references and arguments only.

[_canpakes]

Further, "Panels" are obsolete....

No more so than internal combustion engines.

[_The CCC]

Solar Technology should be on HOMES and Businesses..... NOT on "farms".
Local City councils should be enacting building ordinances to encorage the transfer to cleaner tech and use of space.

Reference please, or explain the scientific reasoning. As usual, legitimate references and arguments only.

Seconded.

[_canpakes]

Every home should be fitted with Solar Tech, Power generating Windmills, Tankless Water Heaters, Waste collection for Fertilization, Bins for recycling everything, Filtration systems for cleaning water and softening, etc.

That's a lot of regulation, you crazy, freedom-killing leftist socialist enviro-nazi.

[_ldsfaqs]

Nope.... building codes change all the time, and they are a "non fascist" way of improving the quality of life for individual dwellings.

Not "banning" anything, just having building "standards" improved as they do in a growing technological changing society. So, that's not the same thing as "fascism".
I'm a conservative, thus I believe in "some" necessary regulation.

[_just me]

Our federal prison has a solar farm on the property. I think it's great. In fact, I'm pretty sure the federal center nearest me has put in a solar farm on their property, too.

How on earth is this controversial?

[_Lemmie]

Nope.... building codes change all the time, and they are a "non fascist" way of improving the quality of life for individual dwellings.

Not "banning" anything, just having building "standards" improved as they do in a growing technological changing society. So, that's not the same thing as "fascism".
I'm a conservative, thus I believe in "some" necessary regulation.

And you think conservatives consider being required to have 'Solar Tech, Power generating Windmills, Tankless Water Heaters, Waste collection for Fertilization, Bins for recycling everything, Filtration systems for cleaning water and softening, etc.,' to fall under the category of '"some" necessary regulation'? Have to disagree with you there.