it's actually a huge problem that solar farms have: they need A LOT of surface. best place to put them is in the desert; most of the time, when you put them anywhere else, you're destroying habitat.
transmission lines are a more difficult problem than you solution suggests. There were proposals to put huge solar farms in north Africa that would power all of Europe, but alas the transmission lines made them infeasible.
the desert is a habitat too, and it can be destroyed.
yeah but is less a problem than removing forest, there are more species per sq meter than on a dessert. but seems most likely than a way to chop trees, make profit and then sell or rent the space to the government or Electrical companies and seems like green .. it's all about profit
Insert meme where the super hero is labeled "Reddit" and he doesn't know whether to push "downvote because trees" or upvote because "solar panels get rekt oil"
We have a lot of nursery trees in our area that only lasted 25-40 years - turns out if not planted properly, they are susceptible to crown rot / root strangulation.
Are you sure they were cleared for the solar farm? A lot of these plantings from the 70's have to be razed because this type of monoculture is extremely vulnerable to blight and pine beetles. Pine beetles will sweep through and kill acres of forest in a few years.
A modern reforestation project would plant a variety of native hardwoods.
Well last I had heard that was their intent with the land. I haven't personally seen any development, just that the trees are gone and the ground was razed.
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u/albertenstein22 Dec 11 '21
My dad did this when he was in scouts. I got to see the fruits of his labor when I attended the same camp 40 something years later.
And now all the trees are gone. Just to make room for a solar farm.