Cheaper, maybe, but gravel is a bit shit for biodiversity and flood mitigation.
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Psythik@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wouldn’t it be cheaper to simply not plant any grass? Lay down a heavy layer of gravel and call it a day.
YungOnions@lemmy.world 2 months ago
evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
For ultimate effect, let’s figure out how to turn the ground under solar panels into peatlands.
banshee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I wouldn’t think so. Rock is expensive and would only last so long. Grass helps sustain an ecosystem while preventing erosion.
poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
That only helps for a while and is quite expensive at utility scale installations. In addition, there are studies that vegetation helps keeping the underside of the solar panels cooler and thus increases the efficiency by a small percentage.