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Classic NIMBYism
Posted by Godders on 7/5/2026, 16:01:14
I really don't get people's concerns over solar farms. The Chinese, and others, have shown how well solar farms can benefit the local environment. Yes, there are better locations for them but I don't think they have a particular negative impact on the environment especially given the clean energy benefits.
Well it would be a step up from their current dozy neanderthal fossilised policies that's for sure.
Re: Classic NIMBYism
Posted by bbb on 7/5/2026, 16:39:42, in reply to "Classic NIMBYism" WUM 2
The huge areas of solar panels are Just like the morons crying for open borders. It's all great ideas until it's thrown on their own doorstep.
Re: Classic NIMBYism
Posted by MG on 7/5/2026, 16:05:40, in reply to "Classic NIMBYism"
Hmmm, you're right, in fact having solar farms can actually improve biodiversity.
But we aren't being very clever about how we are deploying solar and normally if a big solar farm (or other industrial development) goes in then local footpaths and scenery are impacted.
Yes pretty much spot on. But footpaths don't habe to vanish as claimed in the article. One thing I will credit this government for is their policy of new buildings having to include solar panels. Something I've been banging on about for years. Such a relatively easy thing to do too.Live justly, love mercy, perpetuate generosity, walk humbly.
Yes, it should have happened ages ago but there is still a way to go and it is so short termist that these measures aren't being brough in.
But we also have countless acres of car parks that can sensibly be built over with solar panels. Where I used to work has put in a massive installation over their car parks and flat roofs, 4.3MW and no fields had to be touched and your car gets some protection from the elements and is cooler after a hot day.
Re: Classic NIMBYism
Posted by Poster from the past on 7/5/2026, 18:44:00, in reply to "Re: Classic NIMBYism"
This is the best idea. Where I am the government has just forced through a mega site, absolutely huge, despite local residents not wanting it and local council refusing it. I also live very close to the big windmill things and get my energy from Octopus who have a running clock showing how much money has been wasted so far from switching them off due to too much supply. As a local I think why don't you just funnel that wasted energy to locals either free or very cheaply? I don't fully understand what the issue is exactly but I think when it's really windy they generate so much energy that it creates a kind of traffic jam on the grid? Sounds typically idiotic if that's the case!outlaws is not the barometer of sanity. You're either Luton full tilt or you are nothing. We have spunked way too much money on shite. The end.
Yes, though having a solar farm there shouldn't preclude growing crops and/or can actually improve biodiversity.
I bet nothing like that is incorporated though. But if we'd not listened to the fossil fuel lobby for decades we could have done it slower and incorporated all this. Now we are in a hurry. We are paying for a complete lack of strategy.
Put PVs on things rather than just carpeting the ground with them. I was in the south of France last summer and saw a field car park with PVs on stilts, shading the cars and generating electricity for whatever the hell it was, campsite or something.
Sense.
COYH, Jim
Re: Classic NIMBYism
Posted by Genius locked out on 7/5/2026, 16:34:38, in reply to "Re: Classic NIMBYism"
Yes, it just makes so much sense, car parks tend to be near reasonably big users of electricity so they would get first dibs and any extra ought to be easier to feedback into the grid than at remote sites - I would guess, I'm no electrician but it would seem logical enough.
Re: Classic NIMBYism
Posted by Sing Along Hatter on 7/5/2026, 16:05:04, in reply to "Classic NIMBYism"
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