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Having a small domestic p.v. system I've reasoned a bit about agrivotaic, or how to integrate p.v. AND food production not to inject electricity to the grid but
by kkfx 3y ago
Having a small domestic p.v. system I've reasoned a bit about agrivotaic, or how to integrate p.v. AND food production not to inject electricity to the grid but to power local machines, like pumps or even a new form of agricultural machines made to run slowly with less power.
It's pure speculation but I think it would be possible push a bit of p.v. to shield some areas to excess of light and keep a bit more humidity while provide enough power for irrigation, plantation of many kind of crops, and some harvesting as well. Unfortunately I suspect most of the people involved in both agriculture AND p.v. do not even think about such integration as people involved in BEV and p.v. do not even think about direct charging since most modern hybrid inverters works with 400V LFP batteries who happen to be same of most BEVs but essentially no damn single player on the market offer a DC-to-DC direct charging instead of an useless DC-to-AC (efficient enough, at least) than AC-to-DC (inefficient as hell) double conversion.
It's about time that all people involved realize and understand well a thing: we can't power a national grid on p.v. until we have year-long storage, something that's sci-fi today, so the SOLE reasonable p.v. usage is LOCAL self-consumption and as a result the sole things to do now is try to made anything we can usable in such mode, usable depending on the Sun, able to stop-and-go still producing meaningful results.
Crops grow slowly so slow limited machines should not be an issue at all, for instance...