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"All that free energy is going to hurt the farmers." Yeah. Ok.
The saddest part is that Italian farmland is quickly losing value due to climate change (especially lack of rain). Here is a great alternative source of income for farmers that will also solve the underlying problem. Instead they choose to continue to pollute.
Yeah. A fair amount of California's utility-scale solar is built on land which was farmed for a while, but which didn't have a sustainable water supply.
~~fossil fuel companies~~ farmers