Idiots Amongst Us

[sumdumguy]

So… I picked up the mail and noticed White City and Emerald Park Community Newsletter: Front page and continued on two more pages : How Shading Crops with Solar Panels Can Improve Farming, Lower Food Costs and Reduce Emissions. We can get huge benefits from covering our land with solar panels snd planting a crop under them.

[Guest]

Unfukingbelievable ???

[Blaithin]

Depends on the crop.

[RD414]

As usual for a bunch of feckin socialists, it's what they recommend for someone else to do, not what they intend to do.

[wmoebis]

So… I picked up the mail and noticed White City and Emerald Park Community Newsletter: Front page and continued on two more pages : How Shading Crops with Solar Panels Can Improve Farming, Lower Food Costs and Reduce Emissions. We can get huge benefits from covering our land with solar panels snd planting a crop under them.

Got a link? I couldn't find the article in their most recent newsletter.

[biglentil]

The propaganda flows from the top and the tentacles reach down into every city, every town and every RM.

[sumdumguy]

Got a link? I couldn't find the article in their most recent newsletter.

No link, just come over and I’ll gladly give you this rag. The article was written by Joshua M. Pearce something to do with Information Technology and Innovation and Professor @ Western University. In other words department of BS.

Blaithin, what crop would you like to plant under your solar collectors?

BTW- its July Edition 2023

[Blaithin]

No link, just come over and I’ll gladly give you this rag. The article was written by Joshua M. Pearce something to do with Information Technology and Innovation and Professor @ Western University. In other words department of BS.

Blaithin, what crop would you like to plant under your solar collectors?

BTW- its July Edition 2023

Plants that like shade.

I know of solar operations that have had good luck with vegetable crops.

[wmoebis]

Found it.

https://www.whitecity.ca/Home/DownloadDocument?docId=c14f7207-f5d5-4be2-bdef-6dfbaf3b09a9

[jazz]

So switch from canola to growing broccoli and stand at the farmers market booth. Brilliant.

Another ivory tower egghead way out of his depth.

Why doesnt everyone in the city with a backyard do this instead.

[furrowtickler]

Still will say solar panels belong in cities , rooftops , tall buildings with solar panels along south facing sides , roof tops . Along with high efficiency wind turbines. Big cities create their own wind tunnels. There could be thousands installed in cities like Saskatoon, Regina , Edmonton, Calgary . All much better options than open ground for pastures and crops in my opinion.
Is there a place for this idea in the op , yup , but it will only ever be extremely limited in scope . It is pie in the sky thinking it makes sense broad scale

Put the “green” power where it’s needed and demanded. Making solar panel fields many miles from the power demand is counter productive.
Miles and miles of cable that’s carbon intensive along with the trenching required totally defeats the end net result no ?

[fjlip]

Again fanatical stupidly gripping humanity.

[TOM4CWB]

We just finished getting a hail storm that : broke windows, windshields on vehicles, siding on buildings, pockmarked the bodies of the vehicles, broken paint work, destroying crops, this storm had tennis ball to base ball size hail…

Replacing all those solar panels would not be carbon neutral to say the least.

Solar farms need to be weather resistant… First…to be practical in western 🇨🇦 Canada. Trees are. And they fix billions of tons of carbon every year… cycled naturally… like ethanol and biodiesel… these do provide sustainable solutions for energy.

Blessings and Prayers

[chuckChuck]

Solar works all year round under the right conditions. The southern prairies have some of the best solar resources in Canada.

Plants and trees stop capturing solar energy during the winter.

If hail is such a big risk for solar why is Alberta building so many solar farms?

Its a small risk compared to the damage to everything that occurs in a storm like what Tom is talking about.

So should we stop putting windows in houses because of hail? LOL

Storms and bad weather will knock down the grid and fossil generating sources as well. I guess we better not put up more power lines in case the wind and ice blows them over? LOL

[Blaithin]

I agree with your last two points but boy those LOLs just make them seem impossible to agree with.

If I put a finger over the LOLs it’s a much better post.