In one corner, clean energy champion Ed Miliband. In the other, residents – and Reform politicians – outraged at plans for more large-scale solar farms in Lincolnshire than anywhere else in the UK
What’s the alternative? We should make building renewables easier, not add obstacles because “looking at panels feels oppressive”. Relying on fossil fuels is much, much worse for the locals.
Also literally a billion times more oppressive… Like… We’re about to fight world war 3 over it, and it’s being pulled out of the ground in Saudi by slave labour
Small modular reactors? For the UK in particular these are a good option as we use the same tech in nuclear subs.
Or if you want to do solar specifically, lots of smaller scale solar developments that don’t take over an entire area (like 4 fields of solar in the middle of lots of normal fields, so you can avoid it or walk around it and it doesn’t create an enormous “no go” zone next to a rural village.
I don’t think anyone in this thread is really acknowledging the scale of this development, it’s a 1400 hectare site of which 900ha is panels. If you made that into a square it would he 3km x 3km of panels!
The ones that Rolls Royce have been lying about “developing” (with taxpayer money) for years now and are still not actually on the market and have no firm ETA?
Nono, the ones where your local terrorists get material for dirty bombs from.
In all seriousness, maybe ten years ago people ™ weht crazy about the idea of crashing a hijacked plane into a NPP and with the advent of capable drones they want to hand out targets like crazy. So your local steel mill can get plenty cheap electricity.
You know, those folks who had several 100kg pure copper stolen can surely be trusted handling, storing and protecting nuclear fuel on their premises.
What’s the alternative? We should make building renewables easier, not add obstacles because “looking at panels feels oppressive”. Relying on fossil fuels is much, much worse for the locals.
Also literally a billion times more oppressive… Like… We’re about to fight world war 3 over it, and it’s being pulled out of the ground in Saudi by slave labour
Small modular reactors? For the UK in particular these are a good option as we use the same tech in nuclear subs.
Or if you want to do solar specifically, lots of smaller scale solar developments that don’t take over an entire area (like 4 fields of solar in the middle of lots of normal fields, so you can avoid it or walk around it and it doesn’t create an enormous “no go” zone next to a rural village.
I don’t think anyone in this thread is really acknowledging the scale of this development, it’s a 1400 hectare site of which 900ha is panels. If you made that into a square it would he 3km x 3km of panels!
The ones that Rolls Royce have been
lying about“developing” (with taxpayer money) for years now and are still not actually on the market and have no firm ETA?Nono, the ones where your local terrorists get material for dirty bombs from.
In all seriousness, maybe ten years ago people ™ weht crazy about the idea of crashing a hijacked plane into a NPP and with the advent of capable drones they want to hand out targets like crazy. So your local steel mill can get plenty cheap electricity.
You know, those folks who had several 100kg pure copper stolen can surely be trusted handling, storing and protecting nuclear fuel on their premises.