• Dreaming of solar electric sheep

    From JAB@here@is.invalid to sci.misc on Wed Aug 6 22:00:54 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.misc

    We might call them solar farms, but there's often no farming going on
    under solar panels. That's a real shame. But as Rachel Williamson
    reports, with some hard work and planning, a solar harvest doesn't
    need to impact agricultural output.
    ...
    ..
    That research has shown that it's possible to farm and produce
    electricity at the same time. And with hard work and planning, it's
    possible while maintaining Australians' ideal of what the bush should
    be. Luckily, we don't have to go into this situation blind. In Europe
    and Japan, limited land forced new ways of thinking about power and
    farming many years ago. And in the USA, business-savvy farmers
    developed a new multi-billion-dollar industry out of 'solar grazing'.
    Australia has a lot to gain from the idea that farming and solar can
    happily coexist.

    https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/agriculture/dreaming-of-solar-electric-sheep/

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