Denmark Is Angry About Too Much Solar

And, judging by the image of fields all the way to the horizon in farmland, it’s a logical complaint.

What has been created, is a standoff between that growing number of urbanites, who hail from the most environmentally sensitive nation on the planet, and its historic devotion to farmland.

As an old radio show once asked, “Can This Marriage Be Saved?”

One would certainly hope so, particularly if that ‘one’ was both Danish and an environmentalist. As I see it, there are several possibilities, one of which would be to require virtually all urban buildings to incorporate rooftop solar, taking a great deal of the burden off the countryside. Wind is obviously another and, while I’m unfamiliar with how breezy Denmark tends to be, the benefit here is that cropland can easily co-exist with the necessary pylons.

A further suggestion of mine would be to explore the possibility of ‘going vertically.’ Vertical integration, the combination in one firm of two or more stages of production normally operated by separate firms, is a buzzword these days of the business environment.

There’s no law I’m aware of that mandates solar in unending strings of panels at ground level. Raise them a bit, perhaps even to the height of a tractor/combine, and agriculture underneath becomes possible. Sure, there’s interference to normal daily sunshine, but there are many crops and certainly much animal grazing that accommodates such use.

In other words, “lad os imødekomme.”

That, I am told, is “Let’s accommodate” in Danish.