Would you live next to a solar farm?

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Would you live next to a solar farm? | Q+A 2022

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Whena Owen goes to Greytown to talk to those upset about living next to a proposed solar farm, alongside the need to cut carbon emissions through generating clean renewable electricity
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@gregbio Жыл бұрын

Still though, NIMBY's

@grahamcook9289 Ай бұрын

They are NIMBYs and they know it.

@wally07 Жыл бұрын

Plant your boundary NIMBY’s. Problem solved.

@alexandermclachlan3177 Жыл бұрын

NIMBYs going to NIMBY

@gary3074 Жыл бұрын

100% sustainable energy is worth ruining a few hundred peoples lives because it fixes the climate right? Right?

@jans40 Жыл бұрын

There's a solar farm that just started in clemville Texas and it's too close to a neighborhood, it should be 1 or 2 miles away from a neighborhood and it's too close

@grahamcook9289 Ай бұрын

They should put a MW limit on solar PV farms, and at the same time encourage large rooftop solar PV on commercial buildings such as factories, warehouses, offices, commercial and retail, as well as domestic rooftop solar Pv with domestic battery storage.

@elisebalk 10 ай бұрын

More nimby

@BrettCooper4702 Жыл бұрын

But sheep will be better off with the shade and so will the grass when the hot summers happen as the rain will be concentrated from run off. Lifestyle block farmers can still do their thing of lifestyle farming. Like in towns, what your neighbor does is none of your business.

@cynthiarice-tims2165 Жыл бұрын

That’s bullshit. People have depended upon their neighbors to be neighborly since we stopped migrating as hunter gatherers and began to farm. It’s only greed & total self interest that lands would be sold or leased for this costly energy. Which also depends on diesel in all points of production. These ‘farms’ are terrible for wildlife, the land and health of those near. Even WHO admits that. EMF’s are never healthy to humans. You must be the CEO of this disastrous industry. Research how much Dutch farmers detest you people. Generational lands owned by those who feed the nation, cash crops of untested photovoltaic solar farms by green energy nuts will be death by famine to millions if not billions. BTW, CO2 is converted into oxygen by vegetation. It is not a poison. Scientist these days are mad scientists and charlatans.

@gary24752 3 ай бұрын

A little different if you are in the states. If it affects you than it is your business.

@johntynio3416 3 ай бұрын

Just Wait!

@c.mcmahon494 Жыл бұрын

It sure feels purposeful and deliberate because who in their right mind would remove fertile farmland forever with these INDUSTRIAL wind and solar installations? This grift will not only make the power grid MORE unstable, say "bye bye" to air conditioning if you allow coal, natural gas, and nuclear to be removed from the equation.

@markwingate560 5 ай бұрын

This is NZ, We are over 87% renewable energy now and hopefully 100% by 2030. We never have had nuclear energy. We don’t have large grid failures like the USA. We have new Geothermal generation like Tauhara coming on line and Huntley thermal station will eventually be shut down being an end to coal. Even major industry like Fontera Dairy are building Biomass boilers so imports of coal will cease in the future

@c.mcmahon494 5 ай бұрын

@@markwingate560 Joined Jun 11, 2022. You haven't been on KZfaq for very long. Any reason why?

@markwingate560 5 ай бұрын

Simply I never used to comment so only signed up in 2022. Interesting 🤔 Q though, are you suggesting a youth or a Russian Troll farm. No I’m in my 50s NZer cheers 🍻

@gabb159 Жыл бұрын

Solar farms create a HUGE urban heat island effect. These are a BAD idea. That's not to mention the massive electromagnetic fields that they create. Solar farms belong in the desert nowhere near people.

@jans40 Жыл бұрын

There's one that's too close to a neighborhood in clemville Texas

@dt9506 Жыл бұрын

Stupid to be wasting farm land until every supermarket and other warehouse has a farm on the roof.

@kiwi2035 Жыл бұрын

It’s more efficient to have a ton in one place

@BrettCooper4702 Жыл бұрын

And that would make the cost of food skyrocket.

@BrettCooper4702 Жыл бұрын

@@kiwi2035 generators? no it makes very little difference. Distributed can reduce base load transmission

@epicjag3365 6 ай бұрын

I live surrounded by a solar farm by no choice of my own. It's horrible. If you survive the construction phase, seriously we were almost killed by a large piece of equipment just trying to drive up the road to our house. Our TV, internet and phone have been disrupted at one time or another. All the forest animals have disappeared from our property. There are no rabbits or squirrels anymore. I don't know if something about this project killed them or if that stupid buzzing ran them away. Yes solar farms are not silent they buzz. It's like a mechanical hum all day long. Then I discover a study that says if you live within half a mile of a solar farm, it will decrease the value of your property. There are solar panels 800 feet from our house.

@markwingate560 5 ай бұрын

Although there are visual impacts for the neighbours which has a NIMBY affect, those beating there chests and lamenting the loss of farmland are wrong. Some even claiming so much loss of productivity that prices will soar and we will have shortages in New Zealand 😂. Did you not see the sheep grazing which helps the farm not mowing between arrays. NZ research investigated ‘agrivoltaics’ - the use of land for both food and energy production, with livestock able to graze beneath solar panels AS A WIN/win. Canterbury, where the study focused, has a significant area that is suitable for agrivoltaics. Other regions with good suitability include Central Otago and much of the North Island. Stop making up myths about wasted land and go back to episodes of Yellowstone