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In modern life electricity is critical for modern farming methods and food processing so I'm unsure where you're going with that part of your comment.
by EasyMark 3y ago
In modern life electricity is critical for modern farming methods and food processing so I'm unsure where you're going with that part of your comment.
- AnthonyMouse 3y agoIf all you wanted was the electricity for the farm you could put the solar panels on the farmhouse and the barn. Comparing the efficiency of photosynthesis and photovoltaics is meaningless because they don't yield the same product.
- defrost 3y agoSounds very much like a keyboard farmer comment. In the real world, farm power is required for heavy equipment, battery banks, powering cell phone repeating towers on leased out land and entire paddocks are dedicated to mounting panels. These can be ground panels (saves on mounting) or high mounts (to allow for tilt and track | animals to graze underneath) See, for example: https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2022-05-30/solar-farm-grazing-sheep-agriculture-renewable-energy-review/101097364 https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2022-05-30/solar-farm-graz...
- AnthonyMouse 3y agoAgriculture has low energy density. <2% of US energy consumption despite being more than half of the land in the continental US.