• @[email protected]
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    98 hours ago

    Because "In Denmark, it is common for trees, wooden fences and even plastic sheets to act as windbreaks for crops. “We thought, if we are going to do this, why not make these wind shelters produce electricity?” says Victoria.

    In other words, the solar panels aren’t taking away any crop space that wasn’t already taken for windbreaks.

    If you’re used to a giant field of wheat with no protection from wind, it’s a different equation. (With climate change, possibly a Dust Bowl waiting to happen, but that’s another story.)

    • @droporain
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      28 hours ago

      I ain’t a farmer but I seen enough corn fields endless miles acres and acres. Same fields some years with soybeans. We don’t put up sheets or windbreaks lol.

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        I don’t think the project was aimed at Iowa or Kansas. For one thing, they’re tornado country. You’d need to be able to retract the panels into the ground like missile silos or a 007-villain’s evil lair.

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          17 hours ago

          Ok now I’m in. Install the solar panel silos! Lol