People like the idea of solar farms in the abstract, but hundreds of communities around the world are currently fighting them because they require 300-600x more land than other energy sources, produce 300x more toxic waste, and devastate critical wildlife habitats.

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[–]SoCo 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Not to mention a horrible eye soar. My heart sinks when I drive by the huge fields of solar panels as far as they eye can see to the horizon, which all used to be farm fields and wooded areas.

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

We need a windfall tax on solar farms now.

[–]slurper 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

If you were to shit out train cars of gold and diamonds, you couldn't fix our economy.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

The economy isn't broken.

It's not a toaster.

It's working as it always has. If you print money you cause inflation. That isn't news. Shitting gold and diamonds is the problem not the solution. The solution is to claw some of the money printed over the last few years back.

[–]Alienhunter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Solar makes sense to stick places you have already have wasted space or want to make shade. Might as well make extra money as well. Roof? Why not nobody goes up there anyway. To shade a parking lot? To shade an outside lunch area? Patio? Etc. Why not? Doesn't get in the way makes some extra power.

Massive solar farms for industrial power generation? Just build a fucking nuke.

Solar power sucks as a replacement for traditional power. Doesn't work at night. Doesn't work as well when the weather is bad. Takes up loads of space you could use for nature's solar power instead, fucking plants. Farms. Etc.

Just build solar panels on roofs and use nuclear power instead of coal and oil for clean energy. None of this green power inefficient bullshit. We can smash atoms together and generate all the electricity society will ever need why the fuck we playing with windmills like some kind of quaint dutch peasants?

[–]Brewdabier 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

nuclear power

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Susana_Field_Laboratory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident

And Kyshtym (September 29, 1957) ... Windscale (October 10, 1957) ... Three Mile Island (March 28, 1979) ... 9 Nuclear Near-Misses During the Cold War. 7 Deadly Environmental Disasters. ... Chernobyl (April 26, 1986) ... Fukushima (March 11, 2011)

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

So? Have you even been to any of those places?

[–]Brewdabier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So if one has not been to one it never happen ?.

Santa Susana Field Laboratory is closed to the public but I flew over it and Three Mile Island again closed, I have drove and walked around the Nevada Nye County desert. All still show radio activity.

[–]Brewdabier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

produce 300x more toxic waste, and devastate critical wildlife habitats.

I don't care, I get free electricity to heat and cool my home.

[–]Countach_3D 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There is no "magic bullet" to sustain the first-world lifestyle. Watch "Planet of the Humans."