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How one undergrad built the largest solar farm in Michigan
How one undergrad built the largest solar farm in Michigan
Building a solar farm isn’t hard if you have the money; you just pay contractors to show up, install electrical service, build the solar panel support infrastructure, and truck in the panels. But if you want to do it cheap, you could buy some land from a friend and set up your own fabrication shop, spending an entire summer welding together 50,000 pounds of structural steel and pouring concrete around 20,000 pounds of rebar to save serious cash on the infrastructure.
Connor Field, a Michigan resident who built the largest solar farm in the state this way in late 2009, said drily, “I would not do that again.”
“Do you know how to weld?” I asked him when we met recently in Ann Arbor to discuss the project.
“I do now.”
It’s great to hear about people who are dedicated enough to make something overly ambitious work!
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![You say this building is three-quarters knocked down. I say it’s got one beautiful wall standing.
[downtown Detroit]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpoxcmrYqm1qcekelo1_1280.jpg)
