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Relevant Technology Connections video. Tl:DW: a good third of the corn grown in the US is for making ethanol to put in cars, a very inefficient use of land. If that land was instead solar, we could cover all of the energy needs from transportation and electricity in the country multiple times over. Plus agrivoltaics shows some crops actually grow better underneath solar panels.
We should be putting panels everywhere that makes sense and as fast as possible
I'm okay with both.
It's not like they're cutting down forests to put in solar panels.
Solar can be integrated into agriculture, it's called agrivoltaics.
Fields are natural habitat, and it has an effect on the local environment.
Let's cover the heat islands first - we have plenty of them.
yes, it has good effects on the local environment.
This is anti-renewables propaganda, and it’s fucking everywhere now. We need as much as solar as fast as possible, and utility-scale ground mount is the cheapest way to do it. Carport solar is good and necessary, but way more expensive, because the panels are no longer the most expensive part of construction.
do both? solar panels over fields provide shade, and keep the soil from drying out while protecting crops from the sun during the hottest parts of the day. in return, the water vapor emitted by the plants cools the panels, increasing their efficiency. and that's not the only benefits, either. there's even a term for it, agrivoltaics.
Let's also cover roadways and medians. Imagine how much less maintenance and snow removal would be required for a road that has solar panel over it. (Although, then it would turn into solar panel snow removal) It would also reduce glare and result in less accidents.
Just let the snow on the solar panels deal with itself. There's zero need to remove it.
Yea, I know how any of that works, but I'm sure if the battery infrastructure is in place to smooth out the highs and lows of production, it should work well.
This sounds like solar roadways all over again.
I am talking over the roads, not on them. The on road solar was never practical, and was just a meme/marketing campaign for some get rich quick scheme.