In rural America, big solar projects often get a frosty welcome

No one tell her about the nuclear plant that she can see from her kitchen window - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callaway_Nuclear_Generating_St...

We have the same fight going on where I moved to. Plop a huge subdivision or a Meglomart with a 50 acre parking lot down and no one bats an eye. If you want to put up some solar panels and the Redhat FREEDOM Screamers come flying out of the woodwork to tell you how this is stealing food because all the farmland will be gone, how cleanup from solar panels will be problems with using the farm for planting for years, and how the solar is destroying animal habitats.

What? Doesn't farmland already destroy animal habitats? And doesn't the subdivision or stripmall cause the same problems and worse for returning the land to farmland.

I'm not making these up. There are hundreds of those plastic signs all over here with a link to a website that has those as their top arguements against solar.

Kentucky Cons are currently blitzing local channels with anti solar ads and how it is killing the livelihood of the 23 remaining coal miners in the state.

“That piece of ground just across the road here," he said, "I may make 250 to 300 bucks an acre on a good year.

"And then when someone comes around and asks me, 'Hey, we're willing to give you $1,000 an acre (per year) for solar panels, and give you a 2 percent increase per year for a 40-year contract,' it gets your interest," Webb said.

Assuming those numbers are correct, that’s a huge bump in income for farmers.