Solar Farms Are Farms, TooSolar developers like farmland because it is relatively flat, treeless, and exposed to sun. Farms look bucolic enough on the outside, but beneath those amber waves of grain is formerly virgin land that has been stripped of its natural state, robbed of its biodiversity, commercialized, and industrialized for generations with machines, herbicides and pesticides. Regardless, the new iron-air battery will help pump new wind and solar farm development up to 11 on the dial, thanks in part to the economic development decision makers over in West Virginia