Jamie D'Souza
Takeaways:
- Scientists, solar proponents, and farmers are working together to implement agrivoltaics, the practice of integrating solar installations with working farmland.
- The solar panels reduce the amount of sunlight hitting the soil, which means there is lower water evaporation and higher yield.
- Researchers have found that devoting 1% of US farmland to agrivoltaics would satisfy about 20% of total electricity demand.
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