US town rejects solar farm

[Jimbuna]

Because it will 'suck up all the sun'

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2...l-suck-all-sun

Have I slept through Xmas and New Year and woken up in April

[AVGWarhawk]

And these people vote for presidents!

[Commander Wallace]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2...l-suck-all-sun

Have I slept through Xmas and New Year and woken up in April

Suck up all the sun ? Some people have way too much time on their hands.

[Rockstar]

Actually some people dont know enough about solar panels and cant properly express their fears.

BUT! The real problem it would seem stems from more than just uneducated bumpkins from North Carolina thinking solar panels will soak up all of the sun's rays. It would appear to me the towns people are seeing the results from three other solar farms already in place around their town and said enough is enough.

"Jean Barnes said she represented many citizens who rejected any more solar farms coming to the Woodland area and presented a petition to the council.

Barnes asked that any future solar farm requests be placed on a referendum so the citizens can make the decision.

Mary Hobbs has been living in Woodland for 50 years and said she has watched it slowly becoming a ghost town with no job opportunities for young people.

She said her home is surrounded by solar farms and is no longer worth its value because of those facilities.

She added that the only people profiting are the landowners who sell their land, the solar companies, and the electric companies.

We had a similar fight against wind farms. Told the companies to pack sand they went bust and never came back.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

Actually some people dont know enough about solar panels and cant properly express their fears.

BUT! The real problem it would seem stems from more than just uneducated bumpkins from North Carolina thinking solar panels will soak up all of the sun's rays. It would appear to me the towns people are seeing the results from three other solar farms already in place around their town and said enough is enough.



We had a similar fight against wind farms. Told the companies to pack sand they went bust and never came back.

I don't think, legally, the town can say no. My neighborhood is overseen by a HOA(Home Owners Association). The new must have thing is solar panels on your roof. Ugly as hell but the HOA can not say no to solar panels per government regulations/laws on sustainable energy. The sad part of these panels is the company that installs them has a 20 year contract with the homeowner. If the homeowner needs to sell they are still stuck with the 20 year contract or need to sell it as a package to the next owner. Plus, the company installing is getting the tax credits from the government(millions) and not the home owner.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Commander Wallace

Suck up all the sun ? Some people have way too much time on their hands.

Could u enlighten us on that statement? good ol' Akhenaton: 3350 years later(Tut's daddy) Sun power was a big deal back then too!

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

Could u enlighten us on that statement? good ol' Akhenaton: 3350 years later(Tut's daddy) Sun power was a big deal back then too!

Ra was considered the god of sun. Not much as a power source to operate things.

[August]

I'd have been happy to claim that windmills cause gall stones or anything else if it would have worked to defeat their placement on Mt. Passadumkeag up near my place in Maine.

Hey they lied about it not marring the view and they lied about it not killing birds and they lied about utility rates not skyrocketing like they have so why can't I lie about why I oppose them?

Of course the media (read Bangor Daily News) would have happily ignored 99 reasoned arguments and concentrated on that objection as representative because that is what they do.

It's gone from this


to this

[STEED]

Another local woman named Jane Mann who was identified as a retired school teacher expressed genuine fears plants in the area would not get enough sunlight to perform photosynthesis if the solar project was approved.

I wonder what the Green Party would say.

[Rockstar]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

I don't think, legally, the town can say no. My neighborhood is overseen by a HOA(Home Owners Association). The new must have thing is solar panels on your roof. Ugly as hell but the HOA can not say no to solar panels per government regulations/laws on sustainable energy. The sad part of these panels is the company that installs them has a 20 year contract with the homeowner. If the homeowner needs to sell they are still stuck with the 20 year contract or need to sell it as a package to the next owner. Plus, the company installing is getting the tax credits from the government(millions) and not the home owner.

Before the company could build the town had to approve rezoning the future construction site from agriculture to industrial. They did 't and I believe that sent the Solar company packing.

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

Actually some people dont know enough about solar panels and cant properly express their fears.

BUT! The real problem it would seem stems from more than just uneducated bumpkins from North Carolina thinking solar panels will soak up all of the sun's rays. It would appear to me the towns people are seeing the results from three other solar farms already in place around their town and said enough is enough.

Media.
Focus on the crackpots.

I've read somewhere, can't remember exactly where, that the real reason the town is resisting it because the area for the solar farm is so far away from existing infrastructure that to hook up the town to the grid would cost more than the budget allows.

Solar farms are a waste of space. Literally.
You have a technology where you can put a small powerplant on every house in the area, sell the owner power at a reduced cost and send the surplus into the grid.
But no, lets destroy entire acres of nature or arable land for an overlay of an existing urban area.

[Mike Abberton]

The engineering company I work for has done some support work for solar projects, but these projects are generally completed at sites which are already of limited use/undesirable, predominantly closed landfills.

I agree that turning woodlands, pastures, or farmland into solar farms is not the best way to go.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

Before the company could build the town had to approve rezoning the future construction site from agriculture to industrial. They did 't and I believe that sent the Solar company packing.

Darn zoning can be great to have or an issue down the road.

Elkins WV. Skyline destroyed. But hey, the lights are on!

[STEED]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Darn zoning can be great to have or an issue down the road.

Elkins WV. Skyline destroyed. But hey, the lights are on!

Pig ugly wind farms.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by STEED

Pig ugly wind farms.

I have seen these in person. I agree. Pig ugly. Not to mention each has a strobe light for alerting aircraft. It looks like Close Encounters of the Third Kind at night.