Conservation concerns over plan for solar farm (From Oxford Mail)

You can't see the view in the dark.

This is brilliant, the NIMBYS who campaign against these "green" power generating applications, are also the same types that campaign against nuclear power stations. So what is it that you want? Green energy as long as it is not generated near you?. This country has got no chance of progressing into the 21st century until idiot protesters are ignored, and we just get on with building everything from power stations and homes, to new roads and rail lines.

Farmers wouldn't be changing to solar panel plantations without UK or EU subsidies and the promise of high yield returns from selling to the National Grid. However, maybe there is 'eco-sense' in getting domestic homes and commercial premises to generate more of the electricity which they consume via solar panels on their roofs. All private and Council-owned houses, flats and buildings could have solar panels, and whilst initially expensive, this could be eased by Government help and reflected in the sale-price of homes - with home-owners having to take a short-term 'hit' on costs against profit on re-sale. It would also be easier to vector solar panels into the cost of new homes in the same way as double-glazing and insulation has become over the past couple of decades. Home-owners and Council Tenants alike would reap the benefit of not having to pay ever-spiralling electricity bills from ever-greedier electricity companies (thanks, Mrs Thatcher!) and at least solar panels on a 'semi' would have less impact on the countryside and neighbourhoods than stonking-great windmills in the back-garden!