By: Diane Benjamin
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Those pictures are from Maroa Il – the site of a former solar farm that didn’t survive storms on 8/18. No reports blame anything but severe storms. https://www.wandtv.com/community/maroa-solar-farm-suffered-significant-damage-from-overnight-storms/article_a6e03577-0e19-480c-bc3c-e931c0e4e753.html
I did see a report on Facebook of power outages close to Bloomington. Ameren blamed this solar farm wreckage. The power grid has to be fed a continuous supply of electricity. “Green” isn’t stable, it always has to be backed up by fossil fuels.
The stupid generation thinks they are saving the world. When your power goes out – know who to blame.
Meanwhile construction has started on the solar farm close to Fox Creek school. Farmland is being replaced by glass panels likely made either in China or with parts from China.
Enjoy heat in the winter and air conditioning in the summer?
Both are at risk because of ridiculous power policies.
This farmland will be gone: (h/t a reader)
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Another solar farm east of Bloomington is still under consideration. Who needs farmland? Fake food can be made in labs!
History is not going to be kind to anyone who still believes the Climate Change hoax. When the brownouts and blackouts happen make sure you know which stupid people caused them. When food shortages occur, the same people are to blame.
Does Chris Koos still want to ban natural gas south of the tracks in Uptown? Put him on the list of who to blame.
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I’ve mentioned this before, but there are not one, but TWO big solar installations being built just outside of Minonk. One is literally right outside of town on the main road going to I-39. The other is just a bit more north on IL-251. In addition to those, it appears as if there are also more turbines going up around Wenona, and just south of Minonk at around the route 16 exit of 1-39. All of it is a huge eyesore.
Why are these being pushed on rural communities? Isn’t there enough empty parking lots around urban areas to make into solar farms? What about parking at any mall? Eastland mall has PLENTY of space to set up a solar farm. Why isn’t this being pushed on them? Or empty parking lots in Chicago? Or how about the tops of skyscrapers? Why does it all have to replace farmland? None of it makes any damn sense.
FYI, last week you posted about being concerned about freedom of speech. Evidently, freedom of speech doesn’t exist in Clinton county.
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/08/20/billboard-proud-boys-hate-group-removed-southern-illinois-after-public-pressure/
This is a bigger issue than an antifa commie douchebag using lawfare against people he doesn’t like. This state is completely screwed.
It makes perfect sense for the destroyers. Psychopathic genocidals such as Bill Gates messing with nature to destroy humanity. Destruction of savings through inflation to cripple the peaseant class. McLean county once known as some of the most fertile land in the world should absolutely not be given up to these endeavors. Zoned as agriculture it should never change. Sadly though, here we are.
Fry’s grocery stores here in AZ (they’re called Krogers back East and King Sooner in Colorado) are solar powered thanks to solar arrays which shade most of their parking spaces (a side benefit) when one lives in a state with 100-115 degree (or higher!) ambient temperatures in summer and so much sunshine the rest of the year, you appreciate covered parking! I didn’t say Fry’s was smart to put solar in (who knows if it has been cost effective or not?) but I’m thankful for the shade. If Fry’s can do it, every effort should be made to save farmland and keep these solar farms in the cities and on rooftops of commercial properties as much as possible. On a different but related note, another downside is that they wreak havoc with two-way radio communications!
Wonder if that will eventually affect cell service as more and more get installed.
I remember the big scare of the 60’s. It was Paul Ehrlich’s book “The Population Bomb”. He predicted: mass starvation in the 1970s and 1980s.
Ehrlich wrote:
“In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death…” We all took his “science” very seriously.
Today the big scare is from people like John Kerry.
“You just can’t continue to both warm the planet while also expecting to feed it. It doesn’t work. So, we have to reduce emissions from the food system.”
So in 60 years we’ve gone from the fear of not enough food, to food production will destroy the planet. We are truly Lemmings.
The real threat to the world is the large scale manufacturing of fear and the people/political parties that know how to produce it and use it to their advantage. A population in fear is much easier to control, and an easy way to get rich and powerful.
What will the next big scare be? Each generation will be provided one.
Yes, put them over parking lots. Nothing wrong with that, I would enjoy the shade.
For the farmland, no one held a gun to the farmers’ heads to make this happen. They’ve chosen to sell/lease their land, which is their right. Is it right? I don’t think so, but it is their right.
Pritzker made sure no county can say no.
You’re correct. The deals that they offer to farmers and/or landowners are extremely lucractive and provide an opportunity for easy money that will take care of a family for some time. The same cannot be said about farming – it is not gauranteed easy money like these solar deals are. I agree with you; I hate seeing the solar farms on farmland. But this is the free market at work.
Farmers need to break up with government. Nothing about how they operate is free market
You really struggle to stay on topic, Diane. Your points are all over the place.
Just responding to a comment!
Have you heard Illinois has taken over 120,000 acres of farmland out of production for solar?
It’s not a free market when politicians use tax incentives, grants, and pure pork to induce greedy corporations to build them while their competitors are burdened with excessive and unneeded regulation. The solar and wind industry would be only a miniscule fraction of what it is today if is had to compete with nuclear and fossil fuel electric plants on a level playing field.
Land owners should be able to do what they want on the land they own. The devil is in the lease details. Solar money is easy.
Farming has so many costs and variables and dirty hard work,
The smart land owners let the sun do the work.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/usda-ends-funding-for-solar-wind-projects-on-farmland-5903045?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=trendingworld&fbclid=IwZnRzaAMTTrNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHrbULOVlytcrQLpCW9xJONFqQhXfDe7YOCZH2wXDM_iJDWVu8CaSigQw-M70_aem_VOFSWFvVj_5CjN7ptolPfQ
Everyone must have forgotten solar farms can’t be built without your tax dollars
“The Stupid Generation” are called Boomers. Better name would be the selfish generation, but I digress.