Tag: farmland
Plans to Ban Solar Energy on England’s Farmland Criticized by Landowners
Truss, who resigned on Thursday, and her environment secretary, Ranil Jayawardena, hoped to ban solar from about 41% of the land area of England, or about 58% of agricultural land, the Guardian revealed last week. They planned to do this by reclassifying less productive farmland as “best and most valuable”, making it more difficult to use for energy infrastructure.
Members of the Country Land and Business Association (CLA), which represents 33,000 landowners, told the Guardian having solar on their less productive land allowed them to subsidise food production during less successful years, as well as providing cheap power for their estates and homes in their local area.
One farmer made the case succinctly to the Guardian. “We make unequivocally more from our solar panels than from farming.”
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One bit of farmland in Redfall is apparently bigger than all of Prey’s whole map
Redfall is set to be Arkane’s biggest game yet, with one particular area bigger than the entirety of the setting for one of the studio’s older games, Prey.
QuakeCon has come and gone, but not without diving into some details on the upcoming vampire-ridden first-person shooter Redfall. As part of the convention’s digital event, developers from Arkane Austin including studio director Harvey Smith spoke on what the game is, and what players can expect.
During the conversation between the developers, the size of the map was brought up. “Speaking to the size, I think the Talos in Prey was five football fields, and the size of Redfall is kind of ‘hold my beer'” art director Karen Segars said in the video.