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Critics claim large solar farms are a public health threat.
Despite little reputable evidence for this, their fears have helped undercut efforts across the U.S. to broaden energy sources, slowing installations even as customer costs are rising.
https://www.propublica.org/article/michigan-solar-farms-health-concerns-st-clair-county?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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@ProPublica What people object to is PV panels paving over landscapes. Like the image from China below. Even worse when it used to be a landscape they walked through and saw birds and badgers and mosses in. But when it's somebody else's environment getting ruined, it's just whingeing to complain. So people come up with downright silly "health" reasons.
Well done agrivoltaics wouldn't have this evironmental destruction problem. Rooftop solar is _welcomed_. But some giant electric corporation or authority can't be bothered with all the fussy detail work involved. Just pave it in panels! And keep all the money, of course.
Personally, I'm not surprised people object.
let's see some news crews visit Washington County, Kansas or the folks in Memphis downwind of Musk's gas powered data center to ask about the health threats of solar
@ProPublica in what way are these things a threat to health? Ok, if one fell on your foot while you were installing it, but trace amounts of elements sealed in silicon panels (compared to abandoned oil wells and PFAS etc in fields) WTAF?
Hmm. Do they hire people to scrape snow off solar panels?
Just thinking that communities are more receptive to projects if local jobs are created.
In Michigan, where companies were allowed to discharge PFAS compounds into the waterways. Where the paper manufacturer would spray effluent into the back woods, so that it could filter cleanly into the well water system.
Surprisingly, MI has (or at least had), oil wells on private land. You don't associate MI with oil, but apparently there is some.
WTF!
"Critics claim large solar farms are a public health threat."
Wifi is good for you too, it doesn't make people weird as those affected have been defying laws of the land, lying out their asses, creating an alternative reality they thought of for years to overthrow the world.
Oil "should be" subsidized so it can f up the climate more costing us less.
Love the smell of mercury in the morning, looming in the air from the coal power plant... and in all our "organic" food.
@ProPublica "woke left agenda"
"Any detectable tonal noise, he added, must be considered an unreasonable threat to public health. He recommended new regulations."
Well there go outdoor concert venues.
@ProPublica Any lie to serve the "team"
@ProPublica If the protesting locals were given cheap energy by matching their demand to the local panel production, I imagine opposition being easily overcome. Same model as Energy4All in the UK: https://energy4all.co.uk/what-is-community-energy/
@ProPublica The US is becoming more and more of a backwater society.
The rest of the world moves on......
@ProPublica sounds like class warfare from dark money, as usual
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