It’s Worse Than You Think

33 Replies to “It’s Worse Than You Think”

1. Is there better farmland than in Ohio? I doubt it…

   1. It is still a farm, a solar farm. Let them eat solar.

      1. Do the tractors have difficulty farming the solars or do they turn sideways to fit between the solars?

2. That’s gonna leave a mark.
   Paving the West with Chinese glass … thereby solving a non-existent problem.

3. Screw thy neighbours.

4. I wonder if their electricity production will be any better than what we get in Alberta 95% of the time? <2%. What a waste of productive farmland. Whose money? What a SCAM.

   1. I bet they don’t bother clearing the snow either. It’s just built for the subsidies. There are swindlemills and this is a subsidy farm.

5. Open pit coal mine would look better

6. I find solace in the knowledge that someday these will all be a layer in the geological record that went unnoticed because it measured only 3 microns in depth.

   And that the politicians responsible met their ends hanging by their heels from wind turbines.

   1. Only a couple of blades actually are working and the rest are along for the ride…

      What is hilarious on our hydro turbines power generation…
      If they run it exactly backwards, it’s far, far more efficient.
      https://youtu.be/skQNf5_61Ps?si=ileCfZYYwtPXDg1u
      Gotta love hydro power inefficiencies.

      1. Doing that ole mathematics that our politicians and government find disgusting…
         Each turbine should be generating at least 30 times more power if it’s actually efficient on the circle of life wheel.
         To be full capacity of energy efficiency.

7. I didn’t notice any transformers or transmission lines. I wonder if they have thought of that.

8. Thank God Premier Smith has banned solar installs on good farmland.

9. Its a type of desert.

10. The new tornado magnet?

11. This seems appropriate.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY07dHiT2-s

12. Sickening. Salt the Earth, More dead in Ohio.

13. On the bright side … all those Ohioans can look forward to paying what we do here in CA for our “clean, green, renewable” energy … 3x MORE $$ than the National average.

    How is that “clean, green, renewable” energy CHEAPER than the old dirty fossil fuel energy? It isn’t. That’s just a communist slogan.

    1. Green, sustainable energy works, until you run out of other people’s energy.

14. This is pure evil.

    I saw somewhere that these things are heat islands, and as such, are prone to severe storms such as tornadoes.

    If that’s true, then, I can’t wait for the first hail storm.

    Somebody please stop this insanity!!!

15. Because who needs food anyway?

    In order to save the environment we must first destroy it.

16. Criminal, and all for the subsidies.

17. The first thing I thought was one day, all those panels won’t work anymore. Where will they go?

    Also, imagine farming 2,000 acres for 30 years. Thank-you sir.

    1. “By 2050, the International Renewable Energy Agency projects that up to 78 million metric tons of solar panels will have reached the end of their life, and that the world will be generating about 6 million metric tons of new solar e-waste annually. (“End-of-Life Management: Solar Photovoltaic Panels” – IRENA, June 2016)”

       Can’t find the link right now, but I believe the Harvard Business Review called this a low number and the real amount is like 50x worse.

18. A while back our state decided that local govt’s needed to do smart growth plans.
    The mantra was save prime farmland,
    Now…we have a 400 acre solar farm going on…prime ag land.
    Sure am glad we did not allow it to be turned into a trailer park.

19. What’s your point? That Carl leased his land to the highest bidder and is sitting happy with the money?

    1. You didn’t listen to the narration. Carl didn’t own the land, he leased it for years and took his own life when the California-based owner (who inherited the land from her father) leased the land to the solar company.

20. Praying for the white combine. They can put up new panels next spring .

21. Imagine the amount of herbicides they have to spray to keep the weeds down/stop “old field succession”. And given the amount of toxic chemicals embedded in these panels, the first hailstorm turns all these farms into gigantic Superfund sites – they will never ever be able to be flipped back to cultivation.

22. Chick who leased the land to “solar company” will have a problem on her hands when government stops giving that company cash, they’ll walk, and she will have a real environmental mess on her hands.

    Hope the township or county is ready to sue her for clean up costs when the time comes.

    1. This is a very good angle of attack on solar and probably all “green” energy projects.

23. When it’s time for the solar panels to be removed, the solar company will declare bankruptcy and Ohio will be eating the cost.

24. One M-12 tank going up and down the rows for a day should solve that eyesore.

    In 5 years it won’t be working anyway