The Importance of Solar Power and Food Security

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Solar power provides free and reliable energy, with rapid economic payback. However, the need to prioritize food security over solar installations on prime agricultural land is crucial.

At a time of high and unreliable energy prices they provide power that is entirely free of any running costs and pays back the capital investment very handsomely on almost any roof that is facing in a convenient direction. In such circumstances it is incredibly short sighted that any new building should be constructed without taking advantage of the rapid economic payback. The potential for better utilising existing roofs and for brownfield sites is enormous.

Whenever food is in short supply it must be expected that governments will come under a lot of pressure to retain as much as they can of what is produced within their own borders. Around 46 per cent of all the food produced in Britain is imported. At the moment that provides us with a cheap source of supply that keeps our supermarket shelves full not just of imported luxuries like avocados but also a lot of our basic essentials. It isn’t wise to be so heavily dependent on imports.

 

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