The truth is finally starting to come out…

Woodland rejects solar farm

Problem one: reduction in property value.

Mary Hobbs… said her home is surrounded by solar farms and is no longer worth its value because of those facilities.

Problem two: friggen’ dark magic.

Jane Mann … is a retired Northampton science teacher and is concerned that photosynthesis, which depends upon sunlight, would not happen and would keep the plants from growing. … also questioned the high number of cancer deaths in the area, saying no one could tell her that solar panels didn’t cause cancer.

Problem three: photonic shop-vacs.

Bobby Mann … said the solar farms would suck up all the energy from the sun…

Now, I’m not the world’s biggest fan of solar power. Sure, I’d plaster my roof with PV arrays if I could afford the infrastructure. But if you have a great big solar farm, you could generate *vastly* more power by building a full-up nuclear reactor there.

But even so: believing that solar panels will drain all the sunlight from a region? Arguing that something is dangerous because you haven’t proven it doesn’t cause cancer? This, my friends is GRADE A FRIGGEN STOOOPID.

Of course this could also be a result of journalistic  journalismizing, taking poorly phrased statements out of context. But it’s getting *really* easy to believe that people can be that dumb.