US town: Solar panels 'suck up all the energy from the sun'

[YellowDog]

US town rejects solar panels amid fears they 'suck up all the energy from the sun'

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-town-rejects-solar-panels-amid-fears-they-suck-up-all-the-energy-from-the-sun-a6771526.html

A US town has rejected a proposal for a solar farm following public concerns.

Members of the public in Woodland, North Carolina, expressed their fear and mistrust at the proposal to allow Strata Solar Company to build a solar farm off Highway 258.

During the Woodland Town Council meeting, one local man, Bobby Mann, said solar farms would suck up all the energy from the sun and businesses would not go to Woodland, the Roanoke-Chowan News Herald reported.

Jane Mann, a retired science teacher, said she was concerned the panels would prevent plants in the area from photosynthesizing, stopping them from growing.

Ms Mann said she had seen areas near solar panels where plants are brown and dead because they did not get enough sunlight.

She also questioned the high number of cancer deaths in the area, saying no one could tell her solar panels didn't cause cancer.

[awa355]

We done learnded stuf at skool. We'z knows all diz.

http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w420/awa355/hilly.jpg

[Grumph]

Well on that sample, you can see why Trump has a following...

My old boss who sold solar panels....used to like asking physicists if cold radiated like heat....Unless they were very good, he could tie them up for ages.

[Blackbird]

I worked in Alabama and Louisiana for part of 1996. Nothing surprises me about parts of rural America :scratch:

[rambaldi]

We done learnded stuf at skool. We'z knows all diz.


One of the quoted people was a science teacher....

[EJK]

The sun is not outputting enough energy. Thanks, Obama!

[RDJ]

Except that it is nonsense.

What actually happened:

The claim was made by a single person, one Bobby Mann. He evidently blurted it out during a town council meeting at which other residents voiced quite reasonable concerns about whether it was prudent to re-designate agricultural land to be used for manufacturing purposes, and whether the proposed zoning change would negatively affect the values of their homes. As in any group of people – like, say, a random collection of well educated journalists stationed safely north of the Mason-Dixon line, one of whose members suspects a missing jetliner has been swallowed up by a black hole – some members of the Woodland community expressed fears that, to the better informed, were not well grounded. Notwithstanding Hawkins’ sermonizing about the “global consensus that solar power is one of the cleanest and most renewable alternatives to oil and coal,” the Woodland town council meeting appears to have featured a group of ordinary Americans, civically engaged, who reasonably decided not to re-zone to permit a solar farm. But of course, reporting it that way would deprive the media of the opportunity to portray an entire community as a collection of yahoos. It is not news any more. It is just narrative, written for the entertainment of like-minded narrators.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/428534/media-mock-north-carolina-town-over-fear-sucking-suns-energy

[AllanB]

RDJ killed the thread :(


How dare you spew forth truth in place of a good story

[awa355]

RDJ killed the thread :(


How dare you spew forth truth in place of a good story

Everyone knows that bullshit is better to listen to than the truth. That's what has kept KB going for so long. :facepalm::facepalm:

[YellowDog]

RDJ killed the thread :(


How dare you spew forth truth in place of a good story

We were doing just fine until ...........................

RDJ needs to be banned from the Jokes & Humour thread :yes:

[Gremlin]

Bobby Mann, Jane Mann... it's a town of cousins ;)

[BMWST?]

In other news i want one of those solar farms near me.It might offset the extra radiation due to daylight saving and offset the extra paint peeling effects of that extra radiation.

[gsxr]

In other news i want one of those solar farms near me.It might offset the extra radiation due to daylight saving and offset the extra paint peeling effects of that extra radiation.

And less fading of your curtains and furniture.It might take a lot longer for your tomatoes to ripen though.

More study needs to be done to determine if solar energy panels will decrease or totally negate the effects of global warming.

[RDJ]

We were doing just fine until ...........................

RDJ needs to be banned from the Jokes & Humour thread :yes:

I resemble that remark :-)

[Grumph]

Except that it is nonsense.

What actually happened:

The claim was made by a single person, one Bobby Mann. He evidently blurted it out during a town council meeting at which other residents voiced quite reasonable concerns about whether it was prudent to re-designate agricultural land to be used for manufacturing purposes, and whether the proposed zoning change would negatively affect the values of their homes. As in any group of people – like, say, a random collection of well educated journalists stationed safely north of the Mason-Dixon line, one of whose members suspects a missing jetliner has been swallowed up by a black hole – some members of the Woodland community expressed fears that, to the better informed, were not well grounded. Notwithstanding Hawkins’ sermonizing about the “global consensus that solar power is one of the cleanest and most renewable alternatives to oil and coal,” the Woodland town council meeting appears to have featured a group of ordinary Americans, civically engaged, who reasonably decided not to re-zone to permit a solar farm. But of course, reporting it that way would deprive the media of the opportunity to portray an entire community as a collection of yahoos. It is not news any more. It is just narrative, written for the entertainment of like-minded narrators.

Nah, that's bullshit - it's a conspiracy by the US media to avoid the low educational standards of the poor South becoming known to the world - and particularly Islamic State....Who could be scared of people as reported ?

[seattle smitty]

A hidebound conservative fundamentalist from the Deep South had begun as a poor farm boy but had worked hard and risen in life to his present exalted position as a senior state senator. This day he was meeting with a young but very savvy lobbyist about an upcoming vote on additional funding for the state university. The senator was undecided, the lobbyist was arguing against the spending bill . . .

"Senator," said the lobbyist, "are you aware that at the university it is common practice to give each student a syllabus at the beginning of each year?"

The senator, looking concerned, said, "Oh, really?!!"

"Yes, and what's more, did you know that the young male and female students matriculate together??"

"WHAT, I had no idea!!"

"And that's not the worst; do you know that a professor can order a girl student to show him her thesis?!!"

"NO!! That does it, by God; I won't vote 'em a damned cent!!!!"

[seattle smitty]

There wouldn't be so many of those jokes and stories, RDJ, if there were not considerable evidence for credibility.

A friend of mine up here, a graduate in Oceanography with a career in environmental work, was called on to help out with cleaning up the huge British Petroleum undersea oil well blow-out in the Caribbean in 2010. Craig, a fine sailer and sail-racer, was assigned to join the crew of a workboat operating out from the coast of the state of Mississippi (I forget what his job was).

I ran into him a few months later when he had got back here. I knew that going down, Craig hadn't expected to be dealing with sophisticates, but even so he was taken aback by what he found. "Smitty," he exclaimed, "You would not believe how ignorant those people are! In fact, nobody on the boat, INCLUDING THE CAPTAIN, knew how to tie a bowline (the most basic of boaters' knots)!! I had to teach them all, just unbelievable!" Then he added, "Oh, but don't try to argue with them about anything to do with football; they all know everything there is to know about that."

So while the solar panel story, which I like, did sound far-fetched, still I wondered how much might have been true. Thanks for clearing it up.

[Voltaire]

When trains were invented in England early 18th century, people were suspect of going in the carriages in case all the air was sucked out once they got moving.
Guess their families moved to North Carolina...

[BMWST?]

Well cars were once limited to walking pace fue the the unknown affects of higher speeds

[pete376403]

Nothing surprises me about the Republican US states when you see things like this: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/12/22/1462814/-Militia-backing-AZ-lawmaker-who-says-Earth-is-6-000-years-old-now-leads-state-senate-education-panel

[awa355]

Nothing surprises me about the Republican US states when you see things like this: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/12/22/1462814/-Militia-backing-AZ-lawmaker-who-says-Earth-is-6-000-years-old-now-leads-state-senate-education-panel

Well, when she replaces a chap with the name of 'Flake' that really says it all. :rolleyes:

[awa355]

Now, this I can agree with, from the same website quoted in Pete's post. :clap::clap:

http://www.maxworkouts.com/lp/worst-exercise-for-middle-age-p1

[seattle smitty]

Pete, the irony is that when I was a kid in the Fifties and early Sixties, it was the Republicans who were warning of the dangers to the environment of overpopulation and pollution. "Conservation" (of natural resources and wild places), as environmentalism was called in those days, was of little interest to Democrats. My own political conservatism, or what's left of it, came from THOSE conservative Republicans. I detest today's so-called conservatives, those styling themselves "Reaganites" and "neo-cons" and the Tea Partiers, and above all George W. Bush, worst president of modern times.

Oh wait, this is a humor column. Okay, here's a Dubya joke.

the scene is a staff meeting:

President: "Guys, we gotta keep the Ruskies off balance, make 'em think that if they get too far outta line, we always have the nucular option."

Advisor: "Uh, Mr. Presdent, that's "nuclear" . . .

President: "Oh yeah, Laura keeps bugging me about that, right, noo-clee-ar!!

Advisor: "Anyway, sir, we're all proud that you intend to pursue a muscular foreign policy with the Russians!

President: "Uh, that's "musclear" . . . .

[husaberg]

Nah, that's bullshit - it's a conspiracy by the US media to avoid the low educational standards of the poor South becoming known to the world - and particularly Islamic State....Who could be scared of people as reported ?

That's more like it GrumphyKatman.
Now all you need to do is tell anyone that's asks for any actual evidence of this theory that they are moron and then beg them to suck your cock via the rep system.

[Grumph]

That's more like it GrumphyKatman.
Now all you need to do is tell anyone that's asks for any actual evidence of this theory that they are moron and then beg them to suck your cock via the rep system.

Aside from an affinity with old Suzukis I have nothing in common with that prick thank you.....Please do not confuse my joking attitude with his ingrained permanent one.

[husaberg]

Aside from an affinity with old Suzukis I have nothing in common with that prick thank you.....Please do not confuse my joking attitude with his ingrained permanent one.

I did pick up on the joke but still remain suspicious of the Suzuki thing though:laugh:

[Katman]

Aside from an affinity with old Suzukis I have nothing in common with that prick thank you.....Please do not confuse my joking attitude with his ingrained permanent one.

Perhaps you should learn when to mind your own fucking business then.

[Grumph]

Perhaps you should learn when to mind your own fucking business then.

Perhaps you should quote the correct person who has upset you...I see by your sig line you already know who that is.
I suspect neither of us like being compared. I can live with it however.

[Katman]

Perhaps you should quote the correct person who has upset you.

Dude, we have only ever had a couple of exchanges on here.

If you can't figure out what my previous post alludes to, that's your problem.

(And if you can't find it, ask husaberk - he's good at going back through my previous posts).

[husaberg]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XCTaMnxbo5A/UDQi4-VZv_I/AAAAAAAAASc/4IgfdIcccno/s1600/Mirror+4.jpg

[seattle smitty]

Nah, that's bullshit - it's a conspiracy by the US media to avoid the low educational standards of the poor South becoming known to the world - and particularly Islamic State....Who could be scared of people as reported ?

To be a semi-serious, and for my fellow irony buffs, consider that for all of their dumb@ss ideas and lack of book-larnin', if it actually came to you having to go over the top and take an ISIS position, you couldn't do much better than have a squad of good old Southern boys along side you.

[Daffyd]

Well cars were once limited to walking pace fue the the unknown affects of higher speeds

Shh! Don't tell the PTB... they might reintroduce it.

[awa355]

Shh! Don't tell the PTB... they might reintroduce it.

In the 1880's doctors protested against cycling suggesting that attempting to cycle up hills would cause the body to begin to collapse. This has come to be a proven fact. 140 years on, I'm totally shagged riding up hills. :laugh:

[Grumph]

To be a semi-serious, and for my fellow irony buffs, consider that for all of their dumb@ss ideas and lack of book-larnin', if it actually came to you having to go over the top and take an ISIS position, you couldn't do much better than have a squad of good old Southern boys along side you.

No argument there Smitty - just point them in the right direction and stand at a safe distance.

[seattle smitty]

In 1979, in the middle of the Iranian revolution that overthrew the Shah, a group of students kidnapped 52 American embassy personnel, the start of a year and a half ordeal which I'll assume you already have read of or remember directly. Of course this was the lead story in the news for most of that time, but especially so in the couple of weeks after the initial capture. Following a few days of reporting announcements from the usual official sources, who didn't have a lot of information themselves, reporters began going out on the street and sticking their mikes in front of people for their reactions and opinions. The Carter administration, rather than sending in the Marines, was fumbling desperately to find some way to get our people out of the grasp of the ayatollah's fanatic followers without getting them killed, with the unfortunate result that we looked cowed and helpless.

I will always treasure the memory of one young lady, a network television reporter who happened to be doing this in a city in Texas, though from her speech she was plainly a Yankee. With a good reporter's eye for anyone who looked like he/she would come off well on camera and might offer something quotable, she walked up to an older man in cowboy boots and hat who could only have been a west Texas rancher. Appearing to be somewhere in his sixties, this old man had spent much of his life in the saddle. He was lean and fit with a ramrod-straight back, all exposed skin turned to leather by a life in the sun and wind, and as hard and serious and tough as humans get. Like a lot of old ranchers, he wouldn't have lost much of his working efficiency despite his age, and before he said a word you could see he was all business.

"Sir?," said the the reporter, "Jane Doe, ABC News. What is your opinion of what America shoud be doing in Iran to get our people back?"

The old Texan instantly radiated a degree of indignation that could have melted her microphone (I like to tell this story in person so that I can do the heavy accent, so just imagine it). With no lead-up, he barked, "WE TAKE FIF-TY COW-BOYS AND WHUP THEY ASS!!!!!!!"

They probably could have done it, too!!

[vifferman]

When trains were invented in England early 18th century, people were suspect of going in the carriages in case all the air was sucked out once they got moving.
Guess their families moved to North Carolina...
I can't remember the details, but it was either a scientist or engineer who had carefully calculated that 40mph was the speed at which this would occur.