Can you sound insulate a garden?

Again, I think if you read the article you’ll understand their issues a lot better.

Like everyone else on Lemmy I recommend an ad blocker!

Anyway, I’m sure that having read the article now you noticed that the couple in question are worried about the noise because they have an autistic daughter and moved there to get away from noise, which she’s especially sensitive to.

I’m not sure how it’s relevant that a substation from any other source wouldn’t be worse is relevant? If the panels weren’t behind their house then the substation wouldn’t be there either.

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!

The noise is from the substation (it says so in the article).

Did 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.

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I know what the cartoon is trying to say, but those graphs make no sense

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I hope you will enjoy it, I really do think less is more with watches. Notifications, media control with physical buttons, and the odd timer is what I need to work really well (and like you say, not have to charge it every day).

I searched around for ages to replace my pebble after they folded, the closest I came was a Fossil watch where the hands could move to indicate different types of notification, but the mechanism broke after about 6 months. I was so excited when Pebble started up again!

Was it really windy? Turbines need steady medium wind speeds to operate; when the wind speed increases above a threshold they stop generating, and sometimes angle the blades to reduce the drag (so the mast and foundation aren’t overstressed).