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Re:California farmers are planting solar panels as water sup... by Analemma_ on Thursday August 01, 2019 @08:20PM (#20589664)
People are actually cutting down trees to put up solar farms? Do you have a citation for this? If it's unprofitable farmland that doesn't need development that's one thing, but I can't picture a utility actually clearing out a forest just to put solar panels up, that seems a tremendous waste of resources when there's so much open land elsewhere in the US.
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Re:California farmers are planting solar panels as water sup... by petee on Thursday August 01, 2019 @08:33PM (#20589733)
There are no articles written about it, usually it's simply driving around and suddenly seeing a field where there were woods.

If you want to find historical satellite images, one area is on Plains Road near URI. Ironically, it is across the street from URI's empty turf fields (although they do use that for research)

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