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1041 points mpweiher | 4 comments | 12 Sep 25 18:18 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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xkbarkar ◴[13 Sep 25 13:16 UTC] No.45231863[source]▶
You know what, let’s turn popular city parks to windmill and solarparks. NY central park for example. Copenhagen has a few beloved open green places we could clean out and replace with solarcells, so does Berlin.

Im unscientifically guessing support for nc energy would rise very quickly and wed have a whole bunch of them within a decade.

Source, I live near a windmill, they are loud as f*k. I drive by solaparks nearly every day.

They remind me of those horrible deforested areas in Sweden called kalhygge. Nothing green about those atrocities.

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1. spookie ◴[13 Sep 25 14:28 UTC] No.45232348[source]▶
Yeah have seen them. Down south of EU, in Portugal, they are buying land used for agriculture for these huge solar farms. And it is as sad as it is here. Surely, food is more important no? If they were placed in some deserts like in Spain... maybe they make sense, but these are very arable lands.

Wind is yeah... a whole other beast, although I do like what they have done in the Baltic and North seas.

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2. goobatrooba ◴[13 Sep 25 14:51 UTC] No.45232548[source]▶
Seems like an economics problem? Is farmland cheaper than buying some otherwise less usable land? Or is there now much land available and a huge unmet energy need? And there are also models to use solar that still allow some farming below (e.g. strawberry, beans, greenhouses, ... But maybe not cost effective in this case, or the incentives don't align well.

Have you looked into why this model is chosen?

3. natmaka ◴[13 Sep 25 15:31 UTC] No.45232896[source]▶
Agrivoltaics (dual use of land for solar energy and agriculture) is gaining ground in many nations. This is heavy industry, the pace is slower than in most sectors (IT...).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrivoltaics

4. sehansen ◴[18 Sep 25 08:48 UTC] No.45287213[source]▶
The EU as a whole has a pretty large oversupply of food, so using arable land for other things than agriculture is no big deal.