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No, not as if it were paved. No aggregate is laid down, nor is asphalt put on top of the aggregate. No toxins are put in, nor does the topsoil need to be scrap
by tuatoru 4y ago
No, not as if it were paved.
No aggregate is laid down, nor is asphalt put on top of the aggregate. No toxins are put in, nor does the topsoil need to be scraped off.
End-of-life reinstatement of the land shouldn't take more than ten years of seeding a sequence of plants that specialize in colonizing and re-aerating bare compacted soil, and revitalizing the soil ecology. (Weeds.)
- toss1 4y agoYes, EOL recovery could be quicker than if it were paved (assuming that paving strips the topsoil completely and not just paves over it) but much slower than if it remained growing all the time. The problem is that soil is not just inert, and completely covering it like that kills the entire microbiome — the fungi, bacteria, and myriad of multicellular micro-critters that make the soil good for plant growth will be long gone when they take up the panels.