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4. they can be setup in places where flat-mounted panels are not an option, like agriculturally used fields. Veritcal pannels allow livestock and/or food produc

4. they can be setup in places where flat-mounted panels are not an option, like agriculturally used fields. Veritcal pannels allow livestock and/or food production on those areas, while preserving access for tractors and machinery. A vertical panel has infinite higher efficiency that a flat-mounted one, if a flat-mounted one couldn't be constructed due to floor requirements.

dotancohen 1y ago
Even a vertical panel will sweep shadows across the fields. Many vertical panels sweeping many shadows will probably affect many types of agriculture.
- SideburnsOfDoom 1y ago
  > Many vertical panels sweeping many shadows will probably affect many types of agriculture yes, and sometimes it's a positive effect. source is e.g. https://theconversation.com/how-shading-crops-with-solar-panels-can-improve-farming-lower-food-costs-and-reduce-emissions-202094 https://theconversation.com/how-shading-crops-with-solar-pan...
- jojobas 1y ago
  A lot of crops actually yield better in partial shade and are grown in open fields as shading is more expensive than the yield penalty.
- namibj 1y ago
  Unless you're planting energy crops like corn or canola, that aspect tends to be still net-positive even if perhaps a bit of the solar yield has to pay off a minor reduction in crop yield. Notably though grazing pasture mostly doesn't complain and if mounted suitably (IIUC low enough density and high enough start above the ground), it can co-exist with effective nature preserves.
ratelimitsteve 1y ago
this is an instantiation of my favorite problem-solving maxim that I learned in spirit as a boy scout: "Doing something suboptimal is almost always better than not doing something optimal." When my scoutmaster said it it had a few more four letter words and smelled like cherry brandy, but it was still true.

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4. they can be setup in places where flat-mounted panels are not an option, like agriculturally used fields. Veritcal pannels allow livestock and/or food produc

by littlecranky67 1y ago

dotancohen 1y ago
Even a vertical panel will sweep shadows across the fields. Many vertical panels sweeping many shadows will probably affect many types of agriculture.
- SideburnsOfDoom 1y ago
  > Many vertical panels sweeping many shadows will probably affect many types of agriculture yes, and sometimes it's a positive effect. source is e.g. https://theconversation.com/how-shading-crops-with-solar-panels-can-improve-farming-lower-food-costs-and-reduce-emissions-202094 https://theconversation.com/how-shading-crops-with-solar-pan...
- jojobas 1y ago
  A lot of crops actually yield better in partial shade and are grown in open fields as shading is more expensive than the yield penalty.
- namibj 1y ago
  Unless you're planting energy crops like corn or canola, that aspect tends to be still net-positive even if perhaps a bit of the solar yield has to pay off a minor reduction in crop yield. Notably though grazing pasture mostly doesn't complain and if mounted suitably (IIUC low enough density and high enough start above the ground), it can co-exist with effective nature preserves.
ratelimitsteve 1y ago
this is an instantiation of my favorite problem-solving maxim that I learned in spirit as a boy scout: "Doing something suboptimal is almost always better than not doing something optimal." When my scoutmaster said it it had a few more four letter words and smelled like cherry brandy, but it was still true.