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The big solar farms are really amazing in scale. The blue shimmer of the panels look just like water from far away and they’re so big it literally looks like a
by chasd00 2y ago
The big solar farms are really amazing in scale. The blue shimmer of the panels look just like water from far away and they’re so big it literally looks like a lake in the distance. There’s a few just outside the Permian basin like this that I’ve seen. It’s funny that they’re right near the big fracking operations but I guess that’s because of logistics, land availability, and grid access.
Edit: I want one so bad, something cool about being a farmer but farming photons instead of plants and animals.
- johnea 2y agoWhy choose? Farm both! Especially for grazing, raised photovoltaic allows the photons to be harvested along with allowing goats or cows to graze the landscape. Crops can also be grown in between rows of solar. This arrangement also mitigates the often destructive effect that large utility scale solar has on the landscape. The landscape degradation is why having generation, and transmission, be as locally contained as possible is the best technical solution. But utilities often fight this, since they make money on large utility scale project, and loose money on building and neighborhood scale generation and distribution. As always, the middle way is the best. Too bad nuance is not longer an allowed perspective...