The Smartest Place To Build Solar Farms? Toxic Superfund Sites

The Smartest Place To Build Solar Farms? Toxic Superfund Sites

The largest solar farm in the U.S. finally got cooking this year, but not without reports of singed wildlife and displaced tortoises. It turns out that both thermal solar farms and other types of solar plants can harm the environment in unforeseen ways. But what if we limited these farms to areas where no plants flourished or endangered animals roamed? Like, say, Superfund sites?

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