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Hops for beer flourish under solar panels. They're not the only crop thriving in the shade. (apnews.com)

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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.

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[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Not necessarily a great way to do it. Hops grow super tall, so to have solar over them, you need a tall structure. To have a tall structure that can withstand wind loads, you need pretty substantial materials. You are probably better off just using wind permeable shade cloth that you can deploy during the heat of the summer and take down during the cooler months.

[–] gayhitler420@lemm.ee -1 points 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.

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