jaymatt wrote:
An energy company wants to put a solar farm on over 600 acres of prime farmland in Madison County, Indiana, a few miles from my home. The only people in the county who want it are government officials with dollar signs in their eyes. This project, if approved, will destroy the livelihood of many area farmers, some of whom are friends of mine. Even more crippling is that the electricity produced will be transmitted elsewhere for use.
People do not, apparently, understand that farmland is something that people cannot make more of. The world population is increasing by leaps and bounds, yet big corporations want to take away the land used to feed people. This attitude is senseless.
Solar farms, go away!
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When will we realize that "green energy" is heavily government subsidized (called taxes), and not competitive with fossil fuel energy. It cannot even approach the volume of fossil fuel energy which is nearly 100 million bbls per day world wide! Green energy volume is minuscular relative to total energy consumed in the world
Energy drives our entire economy.