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‘It’s got nasty’: the battle to build the US’s biggest solar power farm (www.theguardian.com)

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A community turns on itself over the aptly named Mammoth solar project, a planned $1.5bn power field nearly the size of Manhattan

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (4 children)

A lot of crop land is perfect for this sort of thing. They’re finding that low ground crops do really well near solar panels. Leaving money on the table by not double purposing the land.

https://www.wired.com/story/growing-crops-under-solar-panels-now-theres-a-bright-idea/

Also not sure why anyone would be resistant to turn empty unused pasture into solar farms. Other than astroturfing by fossil fuel companies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can this really scale up though? Large farms have equally large tractors.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Depends on the crop. See the linked wired article for more info. Also robots are now being used to pick both crops and weeds. They don’t take up as much room as tractors.

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