every series is a trilogy until it's not
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sometimes when two people love each other very much, they don't do anything and nothing happens
"80% of autistic people are unemployed" statistic hanging over me like a knife
we need workplaces to accommodate us yes but we also need communism like right fucking NOW
if all else fails a 2 day work week should pay a comfortable living wage
i'm not sure most people who aren't autistic grasp how much of a disability autism is
why is everything a dead wife to you people.
my dead skateboarding cousin
Memento Throckmori
And, irrigation canals.
Saves 82% of water evaporation. 💧
Actually, do cover the fields as well (in some areas at least).
The problem with putting solar panels over fields is that most farm machinery is big and so you can't get it through the panels unless the rows of panels are too far apart to get most of the benefit from the shade. So most of the cultivation has to be done by hand ... and the panels are usually low enough to make it a lot harder on the workers because you spend more time stooping over and at odd angles. So yeah, you do get greater yields per acre with this method!
... you also are spending a lot more on labor costs and your workers are getting hurt more to do it.
So in most cases, OP is right. Don't cover fields. Cover parking lots and canals.
Depends on what kind of fields you're putting them in. Grazing fields don't require farm machinery running through them, and the solar panels allow places for sheep and cattle to rest in the shade. This makes a huge difference to the comfort of the animals here in Australia; there are farms that have already incorporated solar panels for that reason.
The linked article in the earlier reblog is talking about crops like zucchini and eggplant, which afaik are generally harvested by hand. I don't know if such crops are usually planted by machine the way that wheat is, but considering there's an apparent increase in yield while also reducing the water use, the inconvenience would likely be worth it for at least some farms even if it changes the sowing technique. (Or alternately, you only cover part of the field, allowing for space between the rows of panels for machinery to be driven. Now that some tractors can be driven by GPS with minimal control by the farmer, that also reduces the chance of collisions and damage to the panels.)
Additionally, if there was wide uptake, I would expect that solar panels could be placed on higher supports, reducing the amount of stooping required. That's a potentially solvable problem. And with some parts of the world – including Australia – becoming drier as the climate changes, the fact that crops can be grown under solar panels with less water is no small matter. It could mean that more of the dwindling supply of irrigation water could be saved for crops like wheat, which are currently impractical to grow under solar panels.
But even if it isn't practicable for large-scale farming operations to put solar panels over crops, there's still millions of hectares of grazing land that could have solar panels put over it perfectly happily. We don't have to limit ourselves to car parks and canals.
I think the lesson is “ put solar panels where they would maximize benefit, and don’t assume you know where that is until you research it.”
sometimes u wanna les out with a girl but she gets into a monogamous relationship with a man named fred. such is life.
