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Peter Brown“Remarkably, food production doubled under the agrivoltaic system. And because water evaporation from the plants cooled the panels, the solar system itself generated 3% more electricity during the summer, showing how both food and solar production can perform better when done in collaboration”.
Meanwhile, the UK government is doing its best to prevent deployment of solar panels on agricultural land
HighlandLawyer@peterbrown The UK govt currently operates on an evidence led basis: they see what the science says would be best for everyone, then do the exact opposite.
jramskov@peterbrown I think the issue here in Denmark has long been that it's not been easy or economical to put solar on the roofs of factories and such, which is simply stupid. I'd rather see solar there.
@jramskov I think the issue is that the roof is designed to take a certain load, assuming a heavy snowfall, and the solar panels would probably then exceed the maximum loading for the roof.
@peterbrown perhaps some places, but certainly not all and not parking lots.
Andy Fletcher@peterbrown but the government is all too happy to grow "energy" crops which also displace food.
Mélani (Melanie) Bjornsdottir (she, ŝi)@X31Andy @peterbrown the only defensible energy crop is sugarcane, and my understanding is that that doesn’t grow on the little rock I came from (Britannia, the rock is Britannia)
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Jules 🍺@peterbrown liked this article a great deal, it's good to see that we can do something like this that is a win for everybody
Nfoonf@peterbrown @luebbermann it is saldy forbidden to do this in germany as you can only erect solar panels on an industrial zoned plot and only grow produce on an agricultural plot. both are taxed differently and it is deemed to difficult to change the regulations to allow this.