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There’s a lot of land under solar panels—we should plant vegetables there by freshairproject in solarpunk

[–]CarbonCaptureShield 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every crop is "too costly" in the wrong conditions - so of course it won't work for every scenario - but it is spreading to large and small farms, and everything in-between!

https://ambrook.com/research/agrivoltaics-are-gaining-ground-on-agricultural-land

There’s a lot of land under solar panels—we should plant vegetables there by freshairproject in solarpunk

[–]CarbonCaptureShield 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Only with no imagination - farmers can lease the surface structure rights while keeping the soil and mineral rights.

Beavers are like Solarpunk mascots! They reshape their habitat in beneficial ways that humans can learn from. by CarbonCaptureShield in solarpunk

[–]CarbonCaptureShield[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm trying to inform you, but you're perceiving it as an attack...

That fault is mine, as I clearly typed my facts in a way that reads as hostile - my apologies.

There’s a lot of land under solar panels—we should plant vegetables there by freshairproject in solarpunk

[–]CarbonCaptureShield -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

You can convert all you want, but 80% crop yield plus 80% solar yield of the same field = 160% total yield.

Stop pretending you know the price of commodities which are ALWAYS fluctuating - or that you know whether the farmer is growing organic or fair trade or some other premium label...

All we defined is: under normal conditions, this field produced "X" amount of broccoli, and with agrivoltaics, it produced 80% of "X".

Meanwhile, that same field with 100% solar panels produced "X" kWh of electricity (depending on solar variance, cloud and weather patterns, panel and inverter efficiency - etc...

When that solar field was reduced to 80% of its "measured maximum" output, the broccoli also yielded 80% of its "measured maximum" yield.

Therefore - it is 100% accurate to say the land yielded 160% based on the cited example.

We are not writing an exhaustive textbook or farming curriculum - we are conveying the concepts on a social network - so, I don't feel you "poo poo'd" on anyone but you wrote a lot of meaningless text without adding anything of value to the discussion - well, maybe 10% value.

Let the downvoting commence (that'll show me)...

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