# People complaining about PV electric **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 12, 2025, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-complaining-about-pv-electric/1023890 "2025-10-12T12:06:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-complaining-about-pv-electric/1023890/21 "2025-10-12T17:26:41Z")
Hahahah. We have a reservoir near us. There is an automated… shit I don’t know what to call it. It’s solar power. Maybe 8 feet in diameter. It scours the lake getting rid of unwanted algae. The town wanted to name it. An elementary students suggestion was chosen. She wanted to call it “David Bouey” There may be hope out there. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-complaining-about-pv-electric/1023890/22 "2025-10-12T18:45:59Z")
Run a free electric car recharging station off the PV installation. People will take free stuff even if it kills them. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-complaining-about-pv-electric/1023890/23 "2025-10-12T19:35:41Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > Definition of an environmentalist: Someone who already has a house in the woods. This version of the sentiment, I believe, originates with PJ O’Rourke. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-complaining-about-pv-electric/1023890/24 "2025-10-12T20:05:47Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > we can’t get away from them if we wanted to…the earth itself has an EM field… I would go further, to say that the Earth, and everything else we interact with, is, to a large degree, an electromagnetic field. Certainly, for everything other than the Earth, that’s the entire part we interact with, and for the Earth itself, it’s half of our interactions. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-complaining-about-pv-electric/1023890/25 "2025-10-12T22:49:27Z")
Where I’m from there is a lot of fossil fuel money running astroturfing campaigns against PV installations. Don’t be surprised if there are paid agitators putting fear into people’s heads. It doesn’t help that for obvious reasons the PV installations are planned for rural and semi rural areas close to cities. Around here that is where our most conservative/religious/sovcit folk live. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2025, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-complaining-about-pv-electric/1023890/26 "2025-10-13T11:00:00Z")
Wouldn’t surprise me. But I haven’t seen any pamplhets or adds or anything from anti-solar folks. In my subdivision (I still sort of don’t believe I live in suburbia now) about 1/10 of the houses have PV solar. Considering who got voted into the White House, I think it’s just general fear and ignorance. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-complaining-about-pv-electric/1023890.md?page=1)