Re:More energy on less land: The drive to shrink solar’s foo...
by naasking on Monday August 15, 2022 @05:10PM
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> It has been known for centuries that most plants benefit from partial shade.
Again, "most plants" does not necessarily include "crops", most of which have been selectively bred over millennia while grown under full sun. The step is not from "plants do well under shade" to "plants do well under solar panels", it's to "crops we've never grown in partial shade might actually do better in partial shade too".
Re:More energy on less land: The drive to shrink solar’s foo...
by ncmncm on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @03:26AM
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You are really reaching now. It would be better to stop before you embarrass yourself too much.
No. It just means that some places are better than others.
Since there is overwhelmingly more crop and pasture land than could ever be needed to satisfy power needs, solar may be placed exactly and only where it does the most good.
It has been known for centuries that most plants benefit from partial shade. It is an exceedingly tiny step of logic to go from "shade" to "shade provided by solar panels". In the past, providing shade just cost money. Now it yields direct revenue, year-round.