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I'll chime in with some personal research -- not all plants need 100% full sun. You can quickly argue that you have waste at the plant level if you're dedicatin
by wcchandler 10y ago
I'll chime in with some personal research -- not all plants need 100% full sun. You can quickly argue that you have waste at the plant level if you're dedicating "open air" to a plant that doesn't need it. First plant that comes to mind is Kale. Doesn't need full sun, but likes being "open." Stacking the plants vertically allow you to control the sun and better disperse it more evenly. There may be waste, but there's also a lot of waste that occurs naturally.
- gravypod 10y agoYou also don't need the full visible light spectrum. You only need a small subset that the plants will absorb. If you're going to generatethe light yourself, you can save a lot of energey by only emitting the correct spectrums of light.