"Shade is supposed to be the enemy of a farm. Crops chase sunlight, so roofing a field with panels ought to starve them. Yet plot after plot came in with more fruit, not less, and the plants looked healthier than the ones baking in the open. Stranger still, the shaded rows did it while drinking far less water. (...) Chiltepin pepper plants produced three times as much fruit as those grown in full sun. Jalapenos matched their usual harvest while using 65 percent less water. Tomatoes grown under the array came in at twice the normal yield."
Good luck achieving that with a nuclear reactor.
energiesmedia.com/solar-panels…
American farmers slid solar panels over 62,000 acres of farmland, and the biggest payoff had almost nothing to do with electricity
Long rows of solar panels march across the desert, and underneath them, where the ground should be baked and bare, there are rows of green.Hugo Rojas (Energies Media)
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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I thought that the fact that some plants thrive in the sunlight and some thrive in the shade was pretty much obviously known
And that at least farmers would know that which plants are which depend both on the plant and the location / climate where you're trying to grow them
And that the non obvious bit that requires nontrivial experiments is actually finding out which ones are which in the various places in a changing climate
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