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I'm very skeptical about claimed benefits. Ive lived and worked on a farm and my parents were long term farmers for decades. To be convinced I would need to he
by asdefghyk 2y ago
I'm very skeptical about claimed benefits.
Ive lived and worked on a farm and my parents were long term farmers for decades.
To be convinced I would need to hear the benefits from many more (commercial ) farmers. The quoted farm is a hobby farm, small scale farm.
What are the risks in such installations ?
- sandworm101 2y agoThe risks are the investment in foundations and trenchwork necessary to install the panel support infrastructure. There are companies doing interesting things with low-mounted high-density installations that would be more efficient and require less infrastructure.
- adrianN 2y agoWhere I live, the chief risk (aside from the usual risks of investments) are spending years and years fighting bureaucrats and NIMBYs to get the necessary permissions to put solar panels on land zoned for agriculture.
- KaiserPro 2y agoThe biggest risk is that you need to plant differently to take advantage of the solar panels. Planting for forage is much harder than growing a field for hay/soy/beet/other feed crop. obviously you can't use normal combines to harvest between the rows, so you need different, custom, equipment to harvest at scale.