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Got bad news for you, dude. You are making your field unfarmable.
https://www.umass.edu/news/article/midwestern-us-has-lost-576-billion-metric-tons-soil-due-agricultural-practices
That has nothing to do with solar farms, that has to do with farmers in America not giving a shit about doing things sustainably.
How many acres of this guy's farm do you think he lets lie fallow? Enough to replenish the soil? Or does he try to maximize his harvest every year by using as much of his land as possible?
But no, the problem is the solar farms. Totally.
So this article mentions this Indiana dude as an anecdote and then talks about Reuters discussing this with experts who then tell them whatever data they do have (which they don’t share in the article?) is too small to make any conclusions from.
This article seems bad. What’s the mechanism of erosion that solar farms threaten? Construction seemed to be their only explanation, but that’s not exclusive to solar farm. This almost reads like environmentalism fearmongering
It's not only construction. It's also about having windbreaks (ie: hedgerows, small clumps or full lines of bushy trees, etc) that stop the soil from blowing away in the wind.
I know this because I grew up on the Canadian prairies where backhoes yearly dig up all the topsoil that's accumulated in the ditches, which the farmers then respread on their fields.
There are a lot more windbreaks now than when I was a child.
If only there was some sort of manmade structures that could act as a windbreak while also producing electricity, that would an amazing advancement...
Why would a farmer spend money on building a structure when trees will grow freely at minimal cost?
Smdh
Because it produces usable electricity for the farmer.
A wind turbine is not a wind break.
What do windmills have anything to do with solar panels? Don't try to change the subject...
I misunderstood you then.
What kind of structure would you have the farmer spend money to build then?
The same thing we've been talking about this whole time...solar panels.
The wind picked up the sand the solar power company laid on the property after leveling it.
So please explain to me how solar panels act as windbreaks.
Which ends immediately after they finish leveling it.
Big wide solid panels in rows. Like really, is this that hard to understand?
Solar panels are tilted facing south (angling uowards/downwards depending on seasonal sun locations).
If prevailing winds are coming from the WNW/NW/ or N they are funneled under the panels .... thereby picking up the sand. If the wind is swirling at all the sand will be taken upwards and spread.
So again, please explain to me how solar panels can be a windbreak.
You're complaining about a very easily solved problem. You can just put up another type of barrier at the ends of the rows. This is not the gamestopper that you think it is.
Seriously, just complaining helps no one. Stop looking for problems that don't exist...
You're the one who said solar panels could act as windbreaks.
Yes. I did say that. Which they do. I feel that you're not really paying attention here.
I feel like you don't actually understand what a wind break is. Here's a pic for reference.
Look at all those big empty fields gathering lots of sunshine.
Hint...you can plant trees and shrubs at the edges of a solar panel field as long as you keep the south open.
Its like you're going out of your way to be obtuse.
You mean why would farmers build wind turbines...like they already do and make money from? Is that a serious question?
A wind turbine is not a wind break. Please learn the difference.
My apologies. I thought OP was talking about wind turbines which do help slow down wind, BTW but would not be considered a windbreak. What can be a windbreak though is vertical solar panels which is likely what they were talking about.