Edit: Okay, this must be an LLM slop farm. That report is from February 2019. The abstract was posted to UCSB's website February 2022.

Here's the report.

The formatting of the EcoPortal article was giving me a migraine. This new trend of bolding everything is obscene.

Keep in mind:

This project was funded by BHE Renewables (formerly MidAmerican Solar). We thank Wendy Greene of BHE Renewables for all of her support and project administration throughout the study. We also thank Gary Hood and Alicia Knapp of BHE Renewables for their support and assistance. We also thank numerous BHE Renewables and First Solar staff at the Topaz Solar Farms for their support and assistance during the course of the study. [...] Finally, we thank Wendy Greene [of BHE] and Kevin Dodson for reviewing the draft report.

Take it with the same grain of salt you'd take a report funded and directly administrated by the industry its results are positive about.

Oh boy, I hate it when people say “this was written by AI.” But…

This isn't just an article.

The internet was built to share information, not to farm views. A huge network of computers doesn't exactly look like a farm.

But when petty, slop machines were allowed into the network, something unexpected happened.

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Instead of adapting to the internet, they changed it—quickly. And what internet users saw next began to change how the network was understood.

I bloody hate those slop farms. Just threw the site into uBlock Origin.