Farmers are making bank harvesting a new crop: Solar energy

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• CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Honestly this is probably a better use of the land than growing lettuce in a freaking desert.

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  • Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I wonder if you could gather water from the solar panels cooling at night and having moisture on them from condensation. If they had a hydrophobic coating, the water would always run to the bottom which could then be caught in a tube structure to carry the water into a cistern to water the plants that are growing in the non-panel covered areas of the farm.

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    • jaemo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      What you really need is a droid who understands the binary language of moisture vaporators.

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    • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I believe there have been experiments growing crops under panels. The effect you speak of and the fact that panels, when they have no backing, are translucent can be good for some plants.

      Harvesting under structures is difficult though.

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Ancient Persian water traps exist and function much like the water traps from Dune

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• SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’ll be rotated with soybeans to enhance energy yields.

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  • ticho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Sooner or later, people will get confused and we’ll end up with a crop of solarbeans. :)

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