L4sBotAug 11, 2023

Hops for beer flourish under solar panels. They're not the only crop thriving in the shade.

https://lemmy.world/post/3032003

Hops for beer flourish under solar panels. They're not the only crop thriving in the shade. - Lemmy.world

Hops for beer flourish under solar panels. They’re not the only crop thriving in the shade.::A farm in Bavaria is covering its hops with solar panels, providing electricity to 250 households and shading the plants from the increasingly scorching summer heat in the process.

Show threadLazerbeams2Aug 11, 2023
Sounds good to me. My only real complaint about solar panels is the space they occupy. That complaint goes away if that space can also be used for crops. It’s a win/win
Show threadAbsolutelyNotABotAug 11, 2023

Well people also complain on expansion of agriculture land so I don’t think consideration on land usage will disappear.

Real problem is that many people want the energy source which is clean, cheap, invisible, safe, doesn’t consume any land or resources and of course has a easy to understand functioning. What could possibly go wrong ?

Show threadyokonzoAug 11, 2023
Driving through rural corn country, you see yard signs at every second residence saying to keep solar out of farming land, so there is land usage consideration, but by the farmers themselves
Show threadmean_bean279
I’ll bet that tune would change if we stopped subsidizing corn. I find it hilarious when “farmers” (read just land owners) talk about land usage being wasted like that without even thinking for a second about the amount of subsidies corn gets or the random AG pay to not grow. Which is the most wasteful of land usage.
Aug 11, 2023 at 3:04pmWeb