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> Finally practicality of the frame for farming machines . Meaning the dimensions need to adapt to pre-existing machines. And ideally remain upright even if one
by usrusr 2y ago
> Finally practicality of the frame for farming machines . Meaning the dimensions need to adapt to pre-existing machines. And ideally remain upright even if one post gets hit.
I believe that the end-game for agrivoltaics must be a reversal of that relationship: not the panel scaffolding adapting to farming machinery, but farming machinery and panel scaffolding becoming one, the scaffolding doubling as rails for overhead machinery. The status quo in farming is that a lot of fertile ground is wasted on machinery tracks. Machinery is either narrow-wheeled and ruining the soil in the track through compression, or the wheels are very wide (for weight distribution) to cause less harm per square inch, but harming proportionally more.
When you have scaffolding, scaffolding that is strong enough to survive a storm or two, it will also be strong enough to carry machinery. Not the machinery you'd attach to a 600 HP tractor, but the entire incentive situation for machinery size is based on the amount of harvest lost to machinery tracks and that would be completely solved through scaffolding-based machinery. And the issue of machinery tracks (and ground compaction) only gets worse when you start considering decarbonization: batteries are heavy, and a grid connect right above your field would be just what you'd not even dare dreaming of.