Well at least he can be sure the paint has properly dried!

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Wed Sep 04, 2013 10:10 am

Spain have a solar farm like that, a sort of tower thing with a load of mirrors spread round on the ground focusing the rays onto the tower.

There's a conventional solar panel farm planned for some farmers fields somewhere near me. Maximum height of it is 8 ft, so hidden by the hedges, but residents complaining about it

bb1boy · Post by **bb1boy** » Wed Sep 04, 2013 10:10 am

because of this, perhaps? [youtube]XFw7U7V1Hok[/youtube]

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Wed Sep 04, 2013 10:20 am

Here's a pic of the kind of thing they have in spain somewhere

This is the kind of thing I meant is planned for near me (no problems with reflection causing focused rays, because the angle of the panels is so shallow)

Less obtrusive than a wind turbine, too.

Post by **Lude-dude** » Wed Sep 04, 2013 10:33 am

yeah really don't see the problem with solar farms, on the landscape

they just look like metallic crops

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Wed Sep 04, 2013 11:26 am

Its not like ANY of us look out on a natural landscape is it? This is just the next level of agriculture.

By harvesting the sun directly farmers are cutting out the fiddley matter of growing stuff altogether. All farming is just a controlled harvest of the suns bountiful crop of photon's after all. 150 years ago I'm sure people were up in arms about the creation of squared fields of mono crop rather than traditional multi crop rows. Progress will roll right over them now as it did back then

Post by **indigolemon** » Wed Sep 04, 2013 3:35 pm

wurlycorner wrote:Here's a pic of the kind of thing they have in spain somewhere

Flew past that badboy on the way back from holidays this year. Looks amazing from the air!

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Wed Sep 04, 2013 11:24 pm

There's a (literally) brilliant solar furnace at Odeillo in France; 3500 deg C!