US town rejects solar panels amid fears they 'suck up all the energy from the sun'

[Kontinuum]

A US town has rejected a proposal for a solar farm following public concerns.

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.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a6771526.html

[GennGreymane]

God Bless America, specifically California.....

[Ausr]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a6771526.html

To be honest, it's North Carolina.

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Oh wew lad.

[Adam Jensen]

The stupid, it burns. Some people just don't think. Solar panels aren't goddamn "sun vaccums," they don't pull rays from the air and direct them into their dark heartless little cells. Barring mechanical failure, a solar panel can gather sunlight for the next five billion years without affecting the ground next to it.

How do people get this ignorant? And why are people this ignorant listened to?

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She also questioned the high number of cancer deaths in the area, saying no one could tell her solar panels didn't cause cancer.

I mean..... what?....

Does she even realise what cancer is?

[Torgent]

Why are people so stupid?

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a6771526.html

Its a joke article right? People can't be that stupid. Well, sure they can but not concentrated in such a small area.

[Deleted]

I hope that is a joke please.

[Adam Jensen]

I mean..... what?....

Does she even realise what cancer is?

Doubtful, if she thinks a simple photoelectric panel can cause it.

She's getting more cancer from the sunlight those panels are supposedly sucking away.

[Torgent]

I mean..... what?....

Does she even realise what cancer is?

She's a retired science teacher! Of course she knows what cancer is. I'm pretty sure my lesson on cancer in school was "It's bad and it happens because a lot of things". What more could you hope to know?!

[Snowfunk]

So.. enlighten me. Is North Carolina one of those part of the country, where it is common practice, to repopulate with your sister?
Because that would explain a lot.

[Kalis]

"A spokesperson for Strata told the meeting..."The panels don't draw additional sunlight.""

It's sad that he felt this was necessary to say.

[pyrogfx]

Jane Mann, a retired science teacher, said she was concerned the panels would prevent plants in the area from photosynthesizing, stopping them from growing.

And these people are allowed to teach kids?

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a6771526.html

really?

Ok, I'm sorry, but WTF? how can people be so collectively stupid?

"retired science teacher"? RETIRED SCIENCE TEACHER? do you people not require some form of qualification before you allow people to teach your children?

[Fawkess]

This would have made sense if it happened in florida

[enragedgorilla]

God Bless America, specifically California.....

California ? lol, No God needed here thanks. It gets in the way of "progress no matter the cost" and churning out Billionaires

[s_bushido]

And these people are allowed to teach kids?

Well, you didn't think that the "it's just a theory" garbage will teach itself, did you?

[Gheld]

Why are people so stupid?

Yeah, don't they know that by absorbing the direct sunlight instead of reflecting or scattering it they actually do slightly lower the ambient light level of their immediately surrounding environment and that such a statement isn't as absurd as it actually sounds. And that nobody AFAIK has actually done any studies on if and how much the reduction in ambient light levels by the presence of solar panels actually effects nearby vegetation. Also most of the sunlight they do absorb ends up being released as waste heat into the surrounding environment. When if they weren't there more of the light might have otherwise reflected off the ground and gone elsewhere.

I mean, I'd rather see a town powered by solar panels than coal. But to suggest that the solar panels do not and can not have an environmental impact is just naive.

[Goradan]

Who the fuck is the head huncho there. Dr. Emil Hamilton?! gezz Solar panels catch the energy generated by the sun, not draining it. Full retard.