Something else I saw from the train last week was a field given over to harvesting sunshine.
Yes, you say, isn't that what all crops do? Indeed, but here, between Ely and Cambridge, is a vast array of photovoltaic panels, angled to catch the maximum amount of sunlight and generating electricity. Except at night.
I'm uncomfortable about fertile fen farmland being turned over to this non-food product. Couldn't the panels have been erected on a brownfield site, say, or on top of a former landfill site?
A giant towers over the village and MB is injured.
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OMG...Never have we had rain like it! The noise woke us in the wee hours,
the drumming on the roof sounded like us being under a waterfall. The roar
was...
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We go quite close to that on the Middle Level between Whittlesey and Standground.
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