Saying No To solar Energy, For Reasons

DURING THE PAST FIVE YEARS, the cost of solar energy has decreased by about seventy percent, and is continuing. Sunlight is free and unlimited, the only cost is the equipment. Solar panels are becoming more efficient, as is their manufacture. The chinese are investing heavily in both wind and solar energy ,and preparing to phase out fossil fuels. Germany is leading the way, and the rest of Europe is following, into a solar powered future. In the United States, there are now more than fifty thousand wind turbines in operation, producing at least five percent of the nation's energy. The recently concluded climate change convention in Paris affirmed the world's commitment to spare the world the most catastrophic effects of climate change, although close observers note that the agreements did not go far enough, and are only voluntary. Petroleum exporting Venezuela is on board with the agreement, as are nearly two hundred other countries. And then there's the conservative community in the United states of America, denying the reality of global warming, and objecting to being described as "deniers". About forty percent of the American people fall into this anachronistic category, climate change "disagreers." The educated world, which fortunately includes most of us, can only roll eyes, and keep trying to talk sense. In North Carolina, the community of Woodland was offered the opportunity to receive a solar energy installation. The city council argued pros and cons. Pros included new jobs, economic stimulation, cheap, clean energy, a chance to lead the way into a clean energy future. The arguments presented by the cons (conservatives) are rather interesting. They asserted - and no, we are not making this up - that the installation of solar energy panels in their town would soak up sunlight intended for lawns and gardens, and kill vegetation, and that solar energy panels cause cancer. The cons won the day; no solar enery installation for woodland, North Carolina.