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'



http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-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.

[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

[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...ng-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.

[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

[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

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 ?