Comment on Largest Farm to Grow Crops Under Solar Panels Proves To Be A Bumper Crop For Agrivoltaic Land Use

• fhqwgads@possumpat.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s a dodge since the farm mentioned is historic farmland. They aren’t allowed to stop farming and just put up solar.

  In Kominek’s case, he literally bet the farm in order to finance the roughly $2 million solar arrays.

  “We had to put up our farm as collateral as well as the solar array as collateral to the bank,” he says. “If this doesn’t work, we lose the farm.”

  ^From: Original NPR story

  If anything it seems like a clever way around zoning. Reading between the lines it seems they view the crops as kind of a bonus, not half the point like the original article makes it seem.

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  • Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’ve got a really bizarre view of this, like you’re really looking for an angle to discredit it.

    Like, if your primary business is solar, and as a profitable side project you also produce food, what’s the actual issue there?

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    • fhqwgads@possumpat.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sorry if I came out like I’m trying to discredit the idea, rather I was just trying to put more information out there - the linked article is fairly light on details.

      Like, if your primary business is solar, and as a profitable side project you also produce food, what’s the actual issue there?

      There isn’t one. But it’s somewhat concerning that it was more viable for the owner to become a power plant than to run their farm as a farm.

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      • Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s thanks to food monopolies driving the prices farmers get down to barely sustainable levels

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