Solar farms are just as much of an eye sore as coal plants.
I’m all for renewable energy but I don’t want huge solar plants everywhere either.
I’m all for renewable energy but I don’t want huge solar plants everywhere either.
No panels visible here, but they are marching towards sacred ground: https://goo.gl/maps/8kagR6UNXXG2
This doesn’t look like a commercial solar farm also it’s a pretty small installation which looks private.
Solar farms will have fences, battery storage, support structures, access roads and essentially everything any industrial installation needs.
They won’t be pretty and you need to be really up there to advocate for taking even more space away from the public.
IMHO this coal plant in the distance is easier on the eyes: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Getty...
They've got large coal dumping grounds. They usually have a freight train station that had coal dumped all over it, so everything within 10 meters of it died. They just let all of this sit in open air usually, plus there's the massive amount of smoke, so you can smell them from kilometers away even when there is wind (and let's just not discuss when there isn't, just visit Beijing).
But commercial scale solar farms are fucking ugly they take spaces away from people and advocating for more of them at the expense of green spaces is terribly short sighted.
Put solar everywhere we already have ugly box buildings and roads don’t take up even more shared spaces some of them due to current laws are written can even be nature reserves because we’re green after all.
But solar takes up a huge amount of space, it's worth admitting it.