As a gardener, one could have sympathies for solar energy. Simply because of the photosynthesis of the plants: Leafy green plus sunlight plus water plus CO₂ results in oxygen and energy in the form of sugar – that’s roughly what it is, the details are available from your trusted biologist or chemist. In addition – now back to the gardener – there would still be the greenhouses: Sun, warmth, growth, everything is fine.
But there is also at least one gardener in the vast Bavarian region who doesn’t really know what to do with a certain form of solar energy use. That’s why in Palling in the district of Traunstein, hundreds of square meters of wood have now been removed from energy production using wood chip heating.
All the trunks and all the branches are arranged there to form a wall 50 meters long and five and a half meters high, like the responsible one Trostberger Tagblatt recently reported. Its only purpose is to protect a neighboring gardener not necessarily from sight, but from the glare of a photovoltaic system. The more than 10,000 modules of the open space system unfold this effect for about a quarter of an hour a day, and all of that for two to four weeks a year – the descriptions of what was determined by the Traunstein District Court differ somewhat.
That state and a few other courts have been dealing with the facility for quite some time. The owner of the nursery, which is a good 200 meters from the next module, had spoken out against the system during the 2014 approval process, but without success at the time. In the meantime, however, he has a court order in his pocket, according to which he can have the situation remedied himself if the operator does not stop the blinding effect for a quarter of an hour soon. This, a master butcher from Palling, who uses the system to supply his workshop, inn and hotel with electricity, has meanwhile planted bushes and trees, but they will still have to carry out a lot of photosynthesis before they are high enough. The butcher doesn’t want to buy the entire nursery from the gardener for a lot of money either. So the wall, which the local newspaper says the gardener doesn’t like either. At least one thing is certain: the next court date for the lawsuit against the building permit.