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Needs a beauty strip of trees around the panels.
by Animats 7mo ago
Needs a beauty strip of trees around the panels.
- dylan604 7mo agoYeah, 'cause shade is precisely what's needed for a solar farm
- swsieber 7mo agoAround, not over. Trees are a well studied thing where can you pick different species for different characteristics, like height, and growth speed.
- dylan604 7mo agoTIL shadows from trees only project down directly under the tree and never project away from the tree itself. My entire life experience has been rendered useless.
- fluoridation 7mo agoUltimately, everything we build we build for ourselves, and people will generally prefer something that's nice to look at, if slightly inefficient, over the thing that's optimal at the cost of every other parameter.
- ben_w 7mo agoAssuming they're talking about this one: https://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/25299826.swindon-solar-farm-bring-jobs-energy-funding/ https://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/25299826.swindon-sola... It's obvious from the scale of it that the fact of how shadows move over the course of a day isn't going to make much difference, even if they go much above the height of the panels, which they don't need to in order to hide them from people at ground level.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 7mo agoMost of the new solar farms do plant them, it just takes decades for trees to grow big enough to hide the panels Personally I like the panels