fantawurstwasser‘It was our little idyll – until the solar farm landed’: the battle raging in the heart of the British countryside
fullsquareRemind these racist idiots that Chinese went all on solar and aren’t affected as much by oil supply problems, and you wouldn’t like to be worse than them, right,
AlpacaChariotDid you read the article?
One of the new plants being built in this area, Tillbridge, is the largest solar development to be granted planning permission so far. The project will cover approximately 1,400 hectares (3,460 acres), equivalent to 2,000 football pitches.
That’s absolutely enormous!
They are covering the area with panels because there is an existing grid connection from an old power station nearby that they can re-use. Makes sense from an engineering perspective but it’s a shocking planning decision, it’s not like a few fields of solar in the middle of lots of normal fields, people who live there now will be surrounded by them.
It really seems like bad policy to me, it turns something that should be a positive symbol that you could feel proud of as a local, into something that will feel really oppressive.
You’ve called these people racist, doubtless some are but I expect the majority are just desperate and only support reform because the alternatives aren’t representing them well on this issue.
inariWhat’s the alternative? We should make building renewables easier, not add obstacles because “looking at panels feels oppressive”. Relying on fossil fuels is much, much worse for the locals.
Also literally a billion times more oppressive…. Like…. We’re about to fight world war 3 over it, and it’s being pulled out of the ground in Saudi by slave labour
Small modular reactors? For the UK in particular these are a good option as we use the same tech in nuclear subs.
Or if you want to do solar specifically, lots of smaller scale solar developments that don’t take over an entire area (like 4 fields of solar in the middle of lots of normal fields, so you can avoid it or walk around it and it doesn’t create an enormous “no go” zone next to a rural village.
I don’t think anyone in this thread is really acknowledging the scale of this development, it’s a 1400 hectare site of which 900ha is panels. If you made that into a square it would he 3km x 3km of panels!
Small modular reactors
The ones that Rolls Royce have been lying about “developing” with taxpayer money for years now and are still not actually on the market and have no firm ETA?
Nono, the ones where your local terrorists get material for dirty bombs from.
In all seriousness, maybe ten years ago people ™ weht crazy about the idea of crashing a hijacked plane into a NPP and with the advent of capable drones they want to hand out targets like crazy. So your local steel mill can get plenty cheap electricity.
You know, those folks who had several 100kg pure copper stolen can surely be trusted handling, storing and protecting nuclear fuel on their premises.
good, dare i say, based even. you better start figuring out where to put these panels, because roofs and parking lots won’t be enough (maybe taking into account soil type and how it is already used)