It’s starting to really get to me in the UK how many people are furiously angry about the prospect of more solar on fields when *many actual farmers* are enthusing about how great mixed-use fields can be. (Solar can shade animals and plants. In many cases, it can also be combined with rainfall capture. It’s about making better use of some land, not replacing one thing with another.)

@craiggrannell it's "NIMBY"-ism at its worst.

They all want "clean" energy, just not generated near them. Same as with windfarms. Or mobile phone masts, etc.

@81732bit And houses. We’ve had a decade-long fight locally. The (LD+local coalition) council plans to build a new town. It’s the only way to get infrastructure. But Tories in the villages are fuming and push back. Natch, they want more housing. But they’d rather it was bolted on to existing towns – which of course would not get new infra from that.
@craiggrannell would that be existing towns that are located further away from their quaint villages than the proposed new town, perchance?
@81732bit Indeed. And they’d preferably like housing estates on the other side of the towns so they don’t grow towards their little villages.