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No need to clear new land for solar power. Panels can coexist with agriculture, and even help it since many crops thrive in partial shade and/or benefit from water retention under the panels.

“Maize is grown by about 50% of farmers in Tanzania. Maize is also a sun loving plant. So the fact that we had an 11% yield increase in maize [under solar panel arrays] is a phenomenal result,” he said.

#solar #renewables #agriculture apnews.com/article/climate-bee…


Hops for beer flourish under solar panels. They're not the only crop thriving in the shade.

A farm in Bavaria is covering its hops with solar panels, providing electricity to 250 households and shading the plants from the increasingly scorching summer heat in the process. Solar panels atop crops has been gaining traction in recent years.
MATTHIAS SCHRADER (AP News)
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For some crops, yes. But also every large parking lot should be roofed with panels. It's land that's already ruined for anything else and parking under a roof reduces the cooling needs of cars on hot days. And then someday when we have adequate public transportation the land can be reused for something else.
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Osma A
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And, not but. It should be mandatory though to cover parking with solar panels. Even here in the North, the summer production would easily justify install costs, and snow management wouldn't be any harder - who knows, perhaps easier once the techniques develop.
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@Frances_Larina 🏳️‍⚧️ @Osma A Indeed, panels on agricultural land are a case of “can be done in a good way, but not in all cases”, panels on parking lots, but also waiting areas for public transport, etc. are more a case of “yes.”.
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@Osma A OTOH, afaik there are a lot of cases where what look like solar panels taking over agricultural land and making it non-usable are actually cases of agricultural land that is being rotated with periods of rest, and this way will still provide some revenue (hopefully for the farmers), but the panels will be moved elsewhere in the next season / year.
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@Osma A afaik some of the infrastructure (grid connection, mostly) is placed in such a way that it can be used in the various fields that are being rotated. And I've seen fields where the supports etc. looked pretty minimalist, somewhat close to the ground, so they didn't look that hard to move around (i.e. doable in a few days, not doable in a couple of hours, of course).

They weren't big plants (nor big fields), of course. European sized :D

UGH for forest / woodlands, however: that's indeed quite bad.

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