cutting down the trees for...
Saw a disturbing site on my way home yesterday. Rural road, lots of trees, hundred year old forests, then a cleared swath, looked like about 10 acres freshly bulldozed flat down to the clay. Thought it was another new housing development. Nope.
Solar farm. Ten acres of trees felled and the land scraped to clay to put in a solar power collector out here in the sticks. I'm sure there will be a chain link fence around it too.
If this is what the alternative energy industry thinks is acceptable, it makes me angry. More and more unbuildable land is going to fall to this. Buy cheap land that doesn't perk, instead of conservation land, gotta make it "profitable." Wait for it. Less trees. More heat sinks.
Why not just build solar farms along already cleared power lines.
Or put it on tops of buildings in the CITY. I was at the top of the Prudential tower recently and you could count the number of visible solar panels on one hand. Can't spoil the penthouse views you know. No, you have to cut down a tree-covered mountainside in MY rural neighborhood.
/rant
