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North Carolina Town Defeats Big Solar's Plan To Suck Up the Sun (arstechnica.com)
mdsolar writes with this excerpt from Ars Technica: The citizens of Woodland, N.C. have spoken loud and clear: They don't want none of them highfalutin solar panels in their good town. They scare off the kids. "All the young people are going to move out," warned Bobby Mann, a local resident concerned about the future of his burg. Worse, Mann said, the solar panels would suck up all the energy from the Sun. Another resident -- a retired science teacher, no less -- expressed concern that a proposed solar farm would block photosynthesis, and prevent nearby plants from growing. Jane Mann then went on to add that there seemed to have been a lot of cancer deaths in the area, and that no one could tell her solar panels didn't cause cancer. "I want information," Mann said. "Enough is enough."
Srsly, I'm amazed that some people are clever enough to breathe.
Finally someone stands up to these big energy companies, the co2 emissions from the sun far exceeds anything produced by burning oil, and the radiation have caused massive problems with equipment!
The sun is dangerous, we need to stop using it!
This is the lack of education and level of ignorance of the average American in the 21st century. You'd think this was an April fool's joke, or something from The Onion, but it's not. Anywhere else in the world this would've been dismissed as a joke, but in the U.S it's reality.
I'm confused. Were the plans to build the panels directly over the town, Mr Burns style?
Or are Americans actually that stupid?
You see, that's the problem: all this radiation.
Nuclear energy creates radiation. And the sun IS radiation.
No, no. The only safe energy is the Oil that He has giveth, for us to burn as we please!
(do I need a sarcasm tag? I hope not)
Just tell them we'll add two hours to daylight savings time to make up for it.
Mostly random stuff.
"This dumb little town is about 100 miles from Research Triangle Park, the largest concentration of PhDs in the world." - oh, they sucked all the brain powers from those rural people! Ban PhDs!
the best public education system in the South.
Setting the bar real high there, ain'tcha?
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Please, please don't judge North Carolina by these rubes.
Remember that KKK billboard along Interstate 95 that used used to greet us when we went into progressive North Carolina?
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Quick - someone tell those people that if they don't plug something into every outlet, all the electricity will leak out!
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.