Brickbat: Cutting Them Down to Size

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The Ann Arbor, Michigan, City Council is considering creating permanent "solar easements" to protect the investment of those who install solar panels on their homes. The idea is to prevent people from constructing tall buildings or planting trees that might block sunlight from someone's solar panels.

Comments

[Real Books]

But what if the sun goes behind a cloud?

They must also ban clouds!

[Unreal Books]

Don't forget those big spaceships from Independence Day.

[JWatts]

Will Smith has the ban on those.

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Puts them at odds with the candle makers.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Subsidize increasing the height of the victim's panels.

[Radioactive]

put fingers in ears and say neener, neener, neener until the bad tall things go away...

[Deconstructed Potato]

What if the big tall thing is a yuge solar array?

[Adans smith]

They finally figured out how to regulate sunshine. They must be so proud.

[Don't look at me!]

Well, if nobody else is going to say it, I will.

This is a true shadow ban.

[AlmightyJB]

Enacted by a shadow agency.

[Radioactive]

does the Shadow know about this?

[Agammamon]

The Shadow knows.

[Still Curmudgeoned (Nunya)]

Wait, solar panels now trump planting trees? I did not realize that switch happened. I guess next those donation drives to plant trees will become drives to plant solar panels.

[Conchfritters]

Trump doesn't plant trees - He picks up a phone and has someone do it for him.

[Enjoy Every Sandwich]

And so another simple pleasure of life--relaxing under the shade tree in your back yard--must be outlawed.

What a joyless world the statists strive for.

[EscherEnigma]

Nah. You can relax under the shade in your own back yard. What you can't do is force your neighbor to have shade in their backyard.

[Ray McKigney]

If they are really talking about easements (it's hard to tell from TFA), then they would need to be purchased from the neighboring landowner in a voluntary transaction and recorded in the title system.

[Bubba Jones]

Yeah. I am not sure how your decision to develop your property grants you an easement on mine.

[Rossami]

There are some parts of the country where solar makes sense. Anyplace where you have to worry about the angle of the sun as it crosses trees on your neighbors' property is not among them.

Does anyone else find it weird that all the eco-sciency people seem to completely fail to understand the relationship between latitude and the angle of the sun?

[Radioactive]

man, that scienze stuff is hard...

[markm23]

Understanding that requires math, and to quote pull-string Barbie: "Math is hard."

[BoTimmy]

And the oaks just shake their heads.

[Longtobefree]

One wonders just how long the Ents will put up with this nonsense - - -