French pastoralists claim to have lost hundreds of cows due to electricity coming from nearby wind turbines and solar panels and slowly killing their animals.
In the Côte d'Armor department, Brittany, this phenomenon resulted in the deaths of hundreds of livestock on farms, said concerned agricultural workers. One farmer even sued an unnamed company over mysterious deaths. Farmers began to notice that their animals were losing weight and many of them later died.
But the veterinarians could not understand what caused the death of the cows, because they did not suffer from any diseases, and then the farmers on their own land started research. According to the farmers, these studies showed that wind turbines and solar panels emit too much electricity to the earth, which slowly kills their animals.Local farmer Patrick Le Nechet reported that the mysterious deaths began after the installation of a new batch of photovoltaic solar panels. He found that electric currents exceed one volt both in the ground and in water, which is three times higher than the allowable threshold for animals.
A farmer told the French radio station Europe 1: “They lost weight, we lost 120 cows in five years. It is impossible to explain, even veterinarians do not know what to do ... A lot of direct current enters the earth. When we see that all animals die, this is unacceptable. "
Thibault Bauch, an adviser to the sanitary protection group, said: "The human body has an electrical resistance of 1,500 Ohms, and cows have only 500 Ohms, not to mention the fact that they are not separated from the ground with rubber soles."