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CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ve also noticed Lemmy seems to have zero understanding of farming/plants/farming infrastructure and can’t understand that nearly all food crops require FULL sun and building an opaque canopy over crops that need FULL sun will absolutely decimate that crop, you can’t just grow plants on vibes they require very specific things, especially cultivars that humans have designed to make huge fruiting bodies, that takes SO MUCH ENERGY (sun)!
I see this problem a lot too in people asking about prepping, there doesn’t seem to be a well educated prepping community on Lemmy and the amount of people giving out advice like a backyard garden will sustain you as a food source in an emergency is not only wildly ill informed but dangerous for those taking the advice
Yep, gotten into that argument, got downvoted into oblivion by pointing out that covering 80% of the space above crops with sun-blocking solar panels might, you know, affect the crops.
Was confidently told that crops only need about 4 hours of sunlight, lol.
However, you can easily replace all corn farms that were used for ethanol production and produce more energy per unit of land
I genuinely wish we could disable the upvote and downvote counters. Its 99% group think and it isn’t healthy for the discussion.
I mean all of that is big ol fat case depends. Like elevation distance from equator, time of year, what crop and at stage of development.
Tobberone@feddit.nu 12 hours ago
For panels mounted as depicted, I’m with you 100%. I do want to mention though that vertically mounted panels seems to increase harvests and from the farmer (singular) I’ve spoken to who is testing this with the help of academia I’ve understood that there is a debate about moisture retention. And as far as I’ve seen, there are more than university coming to the same conclusions. Having said that, we’ve still to see this tested large scale…