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| Sun, 10th May 2020 14:19:00 |
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World's largest solar farm could cause explosion on scale of small nuclear bomb, residents complain |
Developers want to erect up to one million solar panels the height of a double-decker bus on farmland in a picturesque Kent village.
Building the world's largest solar farm in a picturesque Kent village could cause an explosion on the scale of a small nuclear bomb, residents have complained.
Developers want to erect up to one million solar panels the height of a double-decker bus on 900 acres of farmland, the equivalent of 600 football pitches, at Cleve Hill near Faversham at a cost of £450m.
They would have the capacity to power more than 90,000 homes using energy from what would be the biggest battery storage facility in the world - and three times bigger than the lithium-ion battery built by Elon Musk, the Tesla tycoon, in South Australia.
But thousands of campaigners say the battery facility, which would cover 25 acres, is unsafe and their idyllic village would be decimated if there was a battery fire which could not be controlled...
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