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?
Pendeford
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Today's Canals - BCN Main Line, Staffs and Worcester, Shropshire Union
It was a better day, weather-wise, to start although cloud gradually
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We go quite close to that on the Middle Level between Whittlesey and Standground.
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