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I Like Solar Power

I get why some in the UK complain about fields covered over with solar panels. But I also think that they're preferable to pumping tons more carbon into the atmosphere: yes of course making them isn't that cheap and also is clearly polluting but overall they're better than non-renewable alternatives.

We have installed solar panels on the roof of the house (which merely heat water.....and work well even in winter!), and also ones for electrical power at the back of a field near the house, that we own. No they're not stunningly beautiful but I think we can look on them wherever they are an eyesore as something to be proud of. The alternative is to not use so much energy, which given there are now so many human beings around, is kind of shutting the stable door after the proverbial horse has bolted!
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
The problem is not the solar arrays but their siting.

Obviously we need reduce the amount of carbon-dioxide we release into the atmosphere (not "carbon"!), but we need sensible and sustainable answers to that problem, and destroying prime agricultural land is not one of them.

A letter to my local paper recently suggested one possible alternative is to use the arrays as roofs over big car-parks, such as outside supermarkets.