^^
A simpler version, that covers what is in more academic papers:
Desert damage: the dark side of solar power?
http://aesop.rutgers.edu/~horteng/workshop/lecture2.pdf
I think what she is alluding to is that when you cover an area with solar panels you disrupt the land around it and under it, casting shade, deflecting rainwater, damaging plants and other surface organisms that hold the soil together.
Apparently, you then end up with dessication and dust which coats plants and interferes with photosynthesis - according to papers you can google yourself; there are also papers about reflection from solar farms not just burning plants but also animals, such as birds.
As for "sucking energy from the sun" from her husband, I'm going to be generous to him and assume he meant the panels would be displacing the plants in receiving the sunlight; I doubt he was alluding to any albedo effects added into the solar energy budget of the earth system modelled for his locale, but you never know.

It's reminiscent of when people say lets just lay tidal barriers and wind farms everywhere, as if it won't have any effect on ecosystems or chemical cycles and physical systems - of course it does, and you have to do a cost-ben analysis.

Don't let a bit of considered googling behind a headline kill off a good ol knuckledragger-bashing story.
Lazies and genitalmen, I give you...


The left-wing moron thread?

There fixed.