re: What do you people have against solar farms?

I'm going to need a link. The only thing I'mfinding is A&M trying to combine farming and solar - Agrivoltaics. LINK

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They are trying to take away good farmland in other parts of the state. There’s plenty of idle land in BFE they can use. It makes no sense.

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Farmland is usually flat and clear. The cost to develop it is lower than hilly pine trees. There's also a limit on the slope angle the panel can be installed on.

The most pushback I have seen where I live are due to the tax abatements these solar and wind farms receive. Land/homeowners get quite upset when they get a 10 year tax abatement while they still have to pay their taxes. Additionally, citizens get pissed off because these renewable energy sources receive federal tax subsidies/credits. Those subsidies are paid by those who actually pay taxes.

Another problem with renewable energy is that due to the subsidies, thermal generation (gas or coal) can't compete so very few new plants are being built. The result is not sufficient capacity to cover peak demand. For instance, at the height of the renewable subsidies under Obama, a windfarm could remain profitable at -$1 mWh prices because the subsidies were worth $20+ mWh. Wind and sun aren't reliable energy sources during peak times.

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Solar farms suck up all the solar energy in the area which causes wide spread crop failures and below freezing temperatures near the solar farms year round.

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This is very wrong

I drove from BR to Jacksonville last weekend and there were tons of solar farms near Tallahassee that were under water due to that storm that passed through.

I wonder how that worked out for them

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What do you people have against solar farms?

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Sun don’t shine at night, hoss.

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Another problem with renewable energy is that due to the subsidies, thermal generation (gas or coal) can't compete so very few new plants are being built.

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Greta rejoices.

Meanwhile...

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China accounted for 95% of the world’s new coal power construction activity in 2023, according to the latest annual report from Global Energy Monitor (GEM).

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China’s 70.2GW of new construction getting underway in 2023 represents 19-times more than the rest of the world’s 3.7GW. As the figure below highlights, the country’s trajectory (red line) is diverging significantly from the rest of the world (orange line).

The level of new construction starting in China is nearly quadruple what it was in 2019, when the country hit a nine-year annual low of entirely new coal power stations starting.

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But China gets a free pass, and it has to be by design at this point.

They are being put in a finite resource which is arable land. Some very productive delta farm dirt has been put into solar. Put them in parking lots, on warehouses, high-rises etc. Don't go clear cut CO2 reducing woods to stick it in inefficient solar. That and quit subsidizing the shite out of it with my tax dollars.

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I wouldnt want one next to my land

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Think they look hideous, and it bothers me that places like the LSU Ag Center in Franklinton are now covered with the damn things. BUT, I'd take a field full of those over a subdivision or apartments or whatever. Dual benefit of tying up the land long term and keeping more people from living nearby.

Somewhat related: I really, really enjoy taking an unobserved piss off my home's back porch.

Do you like to eat??