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Re:Semi-transparent solar panels allow concurrent production... by jws on Sunday August 23, 2020 @02:32PM (#24254114)
The ratio of red and blue light controls various functions of a plant. In the context of aquarium plants, more red light makes them get tall and leggy, more blue light makes them be compact and bushy.

https://gpnmag.com/article/effects-of-blue-light-on-plants/ talks a bit about it in the context of greenhouses and tomatoes, the picture in the middle shows 6 plants grown with wildly different red/blue ratios.

If the balance of the light coming through your solar panel was problematic, you could always filter out some of the overabundant light.

Re:Semi-transparent solar panels allow concurrent production... by ballenf on Monday August 24, 2020 @11:09AM (#24261401)
Is that how they know how close to the surface of the water they are?