"fertile ground to grow food and feed all of them"
Well, I don't know anything about this place, but modern agriculture is
pretty bad for the environment (pesticides, fertilizer, erosion, etc). And
much of the food grown is fed to livestock; if it were fed to people
directly, we could feed a
I haven't seen the land myself, so I don't know exactly, but we are a very
rural area, and most of it is populated by Marshlands, Farmlands, and water.
For 900 Acres to be populated with a solar far, the only assumption I can
come up with is that those types of lands will be used. Now, it I
What?! They actually build this non-sense on top of perfectly fertile land?
Now that's a real sin! Open spaces should be for people to recreate, trees to
produce oxygen, give birds a home and shade for people, and any fertile
ground to grow food and feed all of them. That's true harmony with
I would prefer neither. Why cut down trees, possibly fill in marshlands, and
give up wonderful farm-land so that people can watch the newest episode of
Keeping up with the Kardashians!?
This post reminded me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIMBY.
But yeah, more solar/wind is a good thing, especially in a large GHG-emitter
such as the US.
900 acres wasted just to power one data center? You have to be kidding! But
if I take this as a mere experiment then it's not too bad, so let's see what
happens.
So, I just found out that Amazon is building a HUGE, like 900 Acre solar farm
where I live, and it serves only to power their data center... How
ridiculous is that?
Is there anything I can do to put a wrench in this?
Grimlok
