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Oct 3 • 🔑 Insights & Teachings
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@Lorna Willimott kindly shared a link with me to Matt Farrell, who blogs about emerging and maturing technologies. His blogs are beautifully crafted and scripted. They are interesting, positive and factual. I had recently seen a post about large areas of agricultural land being damaged as solar panel arrays were installed on the land. The land is degraded, and although the product—electricity—is needed, it comes at a significant cost to the land.
The Idea that Mat discusses is raising the panels higher and opening gaps between the panels, allowing light to pass through—enough to be beneficial to shade-loving crops. The difference is that instead of covering fields, the panels are installed over, for example, raspberry bushes. These bushes are usually covered in plastic sheeting to protect them from excessive sun, severe weather (such as hail), and wind.
Installing the solar panels over the top of the bushes handled all of these issues and reduced the amount of water needed by the crops by 50%. It also ended the use of the plastic sheeting, which had to be renewed frequently.
In years of low sun, the crop yield was lower, but in other years, the yield was higher. On average, the yeidl was higher. The byproduct was electricity.
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