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.

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.

  • gayhitler420@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    That’s the problem with solar over parking lots, farmland, even roofs. It doesn’t make financial sense.

    Now if you’re trying to maximize land use and productivity and don’t care about having to lay in piledriven supports or lose some parking spaces to safety radius or do suboptimal scale installations then you’re getting something.