• US town rejects solar panels amid fears they 'suck up all the energy from the sun'
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[QUOTE=Tmaxx;49313767]This is why the us is become less and less respected. We are going back to 50's level of ignorance and fear mongering.[/QUOTE] We never really stopped [editline]17th December 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=elowin;49320868]That's still taking up quite a bit of space, and in my experience most people's homes are already overly cluttered. Unless you bury it, I suppose, but that's more effort than most people are willing to put into it, I think.[/QUOTE] Keyword here is YOUR experience. I can assure you most people who jump on that if given the opportunity.
clickbait headlines as per the usual, news sources sampling out statements to make people look retarded if you read the article(and any further ones about it), the [B]main reason[/B] they're rejecting the solar farm(of which, 3 have already been approved) was because of property values and real estate. the landowners are selling the land to solar companies which are purely using it to further energy along the grid; citizens would rather see new businesses and state-funded facilities pop up instead of just another solar farm not that im against it, the more clean energy the better, but these people arent the dumb rocks this article is making them out to be
[QUOTE=catbarf;49315613]I read on another site that the town already has three solar plants but is declining as people move out, and support for the solar plant would be on their dime (it's their management jurisdiction) but outside the limits of where they can collect tax. So the proposal was for a solar plant that they would have to fund and support but wouldn't give them any tax revenue, to provide additional power for a town that if trends continue wouldn't need it. But let's not share that- just take a quote from some random dumbass and imply that it's the official position of the god-fearin' science-distrustin' Southerners (hyuck hyuck). God, I am getting so sick of American journalism. The original article that The Independent is running with spends more time talking about the useless opinions of random people at the meeting than about the actual reasons for the decision. Edit: Not to imply that non-American journalism is any better considering the British source in the OP left out all the reasons entirely so they could make a cheap 'look how dumb americans are!!!' shot.[/QUOTE] The majority of British publications seem tabloid tier.
[QUOTE=CoolKingKaso;49339463]The majority of British publications seem tabloid tier.[/QUOTE] Only the ones that get quoted for Sensationalism
I dunno guys. Lately I saw a lot of teachers in sketchy business; anti-vaccines, flat earth theorist, homeopathy. Hell, there's one case where a teacher refused her newborn child to be admitted for neonatal jaundice, in fear of needle prick or some sort of pseudo-intellectual reasonings.
people in my town were absolutely convinced that windmills gave them cancer
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