... I don't know how much power that farm was generating while I was there in the afternoon sunshine, but it certainly wasn't making any fuss about it -- I couldn't hear a thing. I don't find the solar panels themselves too obtrusive, it's all the fences and warning signs which spoil the countryside for me. There are more and more of them everywhere, alongside the railway too, and no-one ever takes one down. They will go on increasing for ever. Presumably the sheep in these parts can read: 2_221801_040000000.jpg To be fair, they have planted some new hedgerows, but it will be a few years before they amount to much. As a boy I was able to wander and explore anywhere -- I survived, and so did the countryside. What is the environmental cost of making all those photo-voltaic cells? Maybe if they moved the rows of panels a bit further apart they could get a few rows of cabbages in between each row. 2_221810_350000000.jpg I haven't had any battery problems at all with the X100F and never ...