{"id":146682,"date":"2021-06-23T10:01:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T09:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=146682"},"modified":"2021-06-23T10:02:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T09:02:00","slug":"how-green-was-my-valley-big-solars-big-british-land-grab-continues-unabated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=146682","title":{"rendered":"How Green Was My Valley: Big Solar\u2019s Big British Land Grab Continues Unabated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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To generate anything other than a trivial amount of electricity using wind and solar, you need the best part of a continent do it. But, if your \u2018continent\u2019 is little more than a postage stamp to begin with, then carpeting the productive and\/or prettiest parts of it with an endless sea of solar panels is bound to rankle the rank-and-file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Britain, where every acre counts, the endless push for ever more large-scale solar generation is doing just that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this solar farm<\/strong>
Climate Discussion Nexus
Editorial
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It\u2019s important to see the big picture in climate as in anything. But also to remember that the big picture is made up of the actual details, some of which have horns and a tail. For instance\u00a0a new paper<\/a>\u00a0from the Global Warming Policy Forum warns that solar panels are chewing up Britain\u2019s farmland due to a general mistaken conviction that alternative energy has a small footprint and there will always be food just because. But also a very specific policy error that makes it easy to convert ordinary agricultural land to industrial uses. Including solar farms that are bad for the environment in a great many ways, from toxic waste to being ugly, artificial, swelling\u00a0blots on the landscape<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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