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I wonder what crops can cope with the shade that is being cast by the panels. Or whether there is a clever arrangement of the panels that allows for enough ligh
by hankman86 3y ago
I wonder what crops can cope with the shade that is being cast by the panels. Or whether there is a clever arrangement of the panels that allows for enough light to reach the plants.
- manuelmoreale 3y agoYour question reminded me about this article which talks about something very similar https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230424-how-agrivoltaics-helped-save-italys-citron-and-lemon-trees https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230424-how-agrivoltaics...
- DoingIsLearning 3y agoIt's hops, as in beer hops. The leaf shape is very distinct. The newspiece presents him as a 'Hopfenbauer' which again is german for 'Hops Farmer'.
- AlbertoGP 3y agoYesterday on a train in Germany going to another town we passed by a field where panels, which looked new, were mounted vertically, like open parallel fences, and I realized that the cost drop for solar panels means that they do not need to be mounted optimally to be cost-effective. The separation between the solar panel fences was wide enough for a tractor, although too narrow for a combine harvester, and my impression was that it is intended to combine electricity generation with harvesting. It was a small field.
- tesseract 3y agoYeah this is great for plants that need or can tolerate some shade, but the vast majority of common food crops need or grow best in full sun.
- mharig 3y agoThey do not need to grow best. Just good enough, that the combined electricity and crop money is more than just one of them. There was a study last year of a german institute that found for the double usage a mean yield of 160% compared to just crop.