A US town rejected a solar farm amid fears it would "suck up all the energy from the sun"...

[Ace-Garageguy]

 

Edited May 19, 2021 by Ace-Garageguy
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[Miatatom]

And windmills cause cancer.

[Tom Geiger]

And Dutch people will show up in wooden shoes!

[John1955]

And vaccines contain mind control chips that turn people into zombies. And cows passing gas will destroy the world. And ... 

[cobraman]

Just when you thought you heard it all.

[plastic trucker]

29 minutes ago, John1955 said:

And vaccines contain mind control chips that turn people into zombies. And cows passing gas will destroy the world. And ... 

Never heard about the mind control, only the tracking chips that they inject into you.

[stitchdup]

16 minutes ago, plastic trucker said:

Never heard about the mind control, only the tracking chips that they inject into you.

now the new car shortage makes sense, lol

[Classicgas]

[Joe Handley]

58 minutes ago, John1955 said:

And vaccines contain mind control chips that turn people into zombies. And cows passing gas will destroy the world. And ... 

Well, cow farts are a surprisingly significant source of methane gas pollution! 

The whole microchips in the vaccines do make me laugh, wonder how many people that claim this are also carrying smart phones around with the GPS running in the back ground 24/7

[Joe Handley]

13 minutes ago, stitchdup said:

now the new car shortage makes sense, lol

You got a point there

[youpey]

it seems this story is not real. at least the part about them thinking it would suck the power from the sun

 https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/north-carolina-town-rejects-solar-panels/

Edited May 19, 2021 by youpey

[Ace-Garageguy]

1 hour ago, youpey said:

it seems this story is not real. at least the part about them thinking it would suck the power from the sun

 https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/north-carolina-town-rejects-solar-panels/

Looks like you didn't read the entire Snopes article.

Snopes has a well known problem with reading comprehension, and spinning the facts to support the dogma du jour.

According to Snopes own article...

"Jane Mann said she is a local native and is concerned about the plants that make the community beautiful.

She is a retired Northampton science teacher and is concerned that photosynthesis, which depends upon sunlight, would not happen and would keep the plants from growing. She said she has observed areas near solar panels where the 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 that solar panels didn’t cause cancer.

“I want to know what’s going to happen,” she said. “I want information. Enough is enough. I don’t see the profit for the town.

Bobby Mann said he watched communities dry up when I-95 came along and warned that would happen to Woodland because of the solar farms.

“You’re killing your town,” he said. “All the young people are going to move out.”

He said the solar farms would suck up all the energy from the sun and businesses would not come to Woodland."

Perhaps the town didn't reject the solar farm entirely over the concerns of these particular morons, but the fact that one moron quoted by Snopes itself is a retired science teacher should be of sufficient concern. The American education system is on the decline, and getting worse by the day.

[Dave Van]

6 hours ago, Miatatom said:

And windmills cause cancer.

Windmills do kill a huge number of birds. 2019 there were 150,000 official kills by windmills and living between two different windmill farms I know the total is much much more. The local windmill servicer is not required to report kills even when it's a Bald Eagle. 

The solar panel story is tilted toward a few citizens and not the official town's council logic. Just another story to make rural people look like rubes. 

[ChrisBcritter]

And what about the Solaronite? It could blow up the universe! 

 

[Venom]

It IS very hard living in the US nowadays.?

[Ace-Garageguy]

1 hour ago, Dave Van said:

...The solar panel story is tilted toward a few citizens and not the official town's council logic. Just another story to make rural people look like rubes. 

The takeaway from the story is that the woman fearing the solar farm would inhibit photosynthesis of nearby plants was a retired SCIENCE TEACHER.

[Ace-Garageguy]

21 minutes ago, Venom said:

It IS very hard living in the US nowadays.?

John Wayne is often credited with saying "life is hard; it's even harder when you're stupid".

And it's much harder when so many are getting more stupid by the day.    

 

[89AKurt]

Me thinks this is a trap!

[Bills72sj]

I live in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. The rain and the rich soil here permits the farms to grow pretty much anything. I am saddened to see prime agricultural land being covered up with solar panels. Not to mention the toxic heavy metals needed to manufacture them. 

[Dave Van]

8 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

The takeaway from the story is that the woman fearing the solar farm would inhibit photosynthesis of nearby plants was a retired SCIENCE TEACHER.

I live near a US Dark Zone around the GBT telescope. The area around Green Bank WV has no cell service or towers. You can not have a microwave or Wi-Fi in your home. There are two detector trucks that roam around hunting for violators. 

Every year or so a major media outlet comes here to do a story on the crazy locals the believe that cell phones are reading their minds or Wi-Fi is how the government hears what we say in our homes or that microwaves are eating space and time. Dumb hillbillys!

My issue is that 75% of the residents are people from places like NYC or LA or other big city. They move to Green Bank to escape the danger. Then we as a whole are shown as dumb rural people....when in reality it's educated city folks! My son runs one of the only major chain stores in the county. These city folk come in his store and ask if he can turn off the florescent lights while they shop.....almost as dangerous as cell towers!!! 

Bottom line is there are folks with VERY different beliefs everywhere but somehow the story is often tilted to stupid rural folks.  I chose to live in the most rural county in the eastern UAS after an early retirement with a big bank in a bigger city. Best move ever. 

 

[Ace-Garageguy]

13 minutes ago, Dave Van said:

...Every year or so a major media outlet comes here to do a story on the crazy locals the believe that cell phones are reading their minds or Wi-Fi is how the government hears what we say in our homes or that microwaves are eating space and time. Dumb hillbillys!

...My issue is that 75% of the residents are people from places like NYC or LA or other big city. They move to Green Bank to escape the danger. Then we as a whole are shown as dumb rural people....when in reality it's educated city folks! My son runs one of the only major chain stores in the county. These city folk come in his store and ask if he can turn off the florescent lights while they shop.....almost as dangerous as cell towers!!!

I understand where you're coming from, exactly.

Just remember...the mainstream media, for reasons we won't go into due to the ban on political references, likes to portray everyone living outside the anthill as mouth-breathing ignorant morons.

[Venom]

1 hour ago, Dave Van said:

I live near a US Dark Zone around the GBT telescope. The area around Green Bank WV has no cell service or towers. You can not have a microwave or Wi-Fi in your home. There are two detector trucks that roam around hunting for violators. 

Every year or so a major media outlet comes here to do a story on the crazy locals the believe that cell phones are reading their minds or Wi-Fi is how the government hears what we say in our homes or that microwaves are eating space and time. Dumb hillbillys!

My issue is that 75% of the residents are people from places like NYC or LA or other big city. They move to Green Bank to escape the danger. Then we as a whole are shown as dumb rural people....when in reality it's educated city folks! My son runs one of the only major chain stores in the county. These city folk come in his store and ask if he can turn off the florescent lights while they shop.....almost as dangerous as cell towers!!! 

Bottom line is there are folks with VERY different beliefs everywhere but somehow the story is often tilted to stupid rural folks.  I chose to live in the most rural county in the eastern UAS after an early retirement with a big bank in a bigger city. Best move ever. 

 

I live in Wyoming, but now I think I’d really rather live there! There is a wisdom in the saying, “leave well enough alone.”

[Dave Van]

3 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

I understand where you're coming from, exactly.

Just remember...the mainstream media, for reasons we won't go into due to the ban on political references, likes to portray everyone living outside the anthill as mouth-breathing ignorant morons.

BINGO!

[iamsuperdan]

Guys, I find this all quite amusing.

 

Personally, I'm enjoying the 5G coverage and lightning fast internet my vaccine gave me.

 

But please, don't venture into politics. Everyone's behaving so far, but this topic could easily stray in that direction. Let's all keep it that way.

Mocking the dumb is one thing, politics are another.

 

Thanks.

 

"I try to think but nothing happens." - Curly

 

[Snake45]

1 hour ago, iamsuperdan said:

Personally, I'm enjoying the 5G coverage and lightning fast internet my vaccine gave me.

Wait, what?