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Related: About this forumTYT: No, Solar Panels Don't Suck Up All The Sun's Sun Juice
Renewable energy is growing all across the country. Some arent happy about this. Theyre concerned that solar panels are sucking up all the photosynthesis in the area. Also, they may be sucking up all the suns sun juice, depleting it entirely. Cenk Uygur, host of the The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"Members of the public in Woodland, North Carolina, expressed their fear and mistrust at the proposal to allow Strata Solar Company to build a solar farm off Highway 258.
During the Woodland Town Council meeting, one local man, Bobby Mann, said solar farms would suck up all the energy from the sun and businesses would not go to Woodland, the Roanoke-Chowan News Herald reported.
Jane Mann, a retired science teacher, said she was concerned the panels would prevent plants in the area from photosynthesizing, stopping them from growing.
Ms Mann said she had seen areas near solar panels where 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 solar panels didn't cause cancer.
The area around Woodland is a popular choice because it has an electrical substation allowing the panels to be hooked up to the national grid.
Speaking after the COP-21 summit on climate change in Paris pledged to limit global warming below the threshold of 2°c, Pope Francis said the plan will require "a concerted and generous commitment" from everyone.
Experts said a move towards renewable power, with investment in wind and solar energy, will be required to cut down on emissions.*
Read more here: http://www.independent.ie/world-news/americas/us-town-rejects-solar-panels-amid-fears-they-suck-up-all-the-energy-from-the-sun-34284538.html
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TYT: No, Solar Panels Don't Suck Up All The Sun's Sun Juice (Original Post)
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Dec 2015
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drm604
(16,230 posts)1. I first saw this story on Facebook.
I thought that it must be from one of those fake news sites but no, it's real.
To be fair, most of the residents are concerned about things like the impact on property values. It's only a small number that are talking nonsense about cancer or "sucking up all the sunlight".
tclambert
(11,087 posts)2. Do they worry about reducing photosynthesis when a new mall goes in? Acres of parking lot
where you used to have farms, and before that, forest, might just reduce the number of plants, too. Hey, that's the solution! Pave all around the solar panels. Then you won't have any brown spots in the lawn.
Bucky
(54,027 posts)3. Why should we listen to the pope about the climate? Wasn't he ELECTED by pollution?!?!!11!
I should move to North Carolina