Semi-transparent solar panels allow concurrent production of crops and power
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Semi-transparent solar panels allow concurrent production of crops and power
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Re: Semi-transparent solar panels allow concurrent production of crops and power
#2There's no shortage of open area to put solar panels. If we put a (nearly) continuous strip in every highway median, that would be a huge step forward, and still take up practically zero useable space. Even 1% of the federally owned land in the sun belt would generate an enormous amount of power.
Re: Semi-transparent solar panels allow concurrent production of crops and power
#3There's no shortage of open area to put solar panels. If we put a (nearly) continuous strip in every highway median, that would be a huge step forward, and still take up practically zero useable space. Even 1% of the federally owned land in the sun belt would generate an enormous amount of power.
This approach would benefit community solar and remote microgrid projects, as well as geographically constrained places like the UK where the study was done.
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#4I was just thinking farmers had it to easy harvesting their crops.
If we take the solar panels off the 1% of roof space they are on and move them far away from the place we use the actual power, we could do this.
The attention span of the environmental movement is quite amazing at times.
Re: Semi-transparent solar panels allow concurrent production of crops and power
#5There's no shortage of open area to put solar panels. If we put a (nearly) continuous strip in every highway median, that would be a huge step forward, and still take up practically zero useable space. Even 1% of the federally owned land in the sun belt would generate an enormous amount of power.
Just waiting for it to be economical in the nearer term and all of this stuff will magically start appearing. Everyone goes through the motions of thinking about solar solutions to energy, and then they realize how little power they provide and how many they need en masse and then scrap the idea.
Once the math adds up for a quicker ROI, the plans will stop getting shelved and will be presented as novel by different people.
Re: Semi-transparent solar panels allow concurrent production of crops and power
#6I cannot imagine the revolution that solar power will produce if it can fall another 3-5x in the next 10 years. It is already at grid parity.
Although my personal hope is for storage, inverters, controllers and other technologies to get cheaper. Especially longer term storage beyond 4 hours.
Re: Semi-transparent solar panels allow concurrent production of crops and power
#7There's no shortage of open area to put solar panels. If we put a (nearly) continuous strip in every highway median, that would be a huge step forward, and still take up practically zero useable space. Even 1% of the federally owned land in the sun belt would generate an enormous amount of power.
"if the government were to take over the Sahara Desert, there would be a shortage of sand in five year" -- Milton Friedman (exaggerating, somewhat)
Better to put them on home roofs, and arrange for them to be owned by the homeowners, designed so that the occupants are (literally) empowered when the grid is mismanaged, as in California.
On highway medians control is more centralized, and they would require more maintenance and cleaning, which would be more disruptive in that location.
Re: Semi-transparent solar panels allow concurrent production of crops and power
#8I cannot imagine the revolution that solar power will produce if it can fall another 3-5x in the next 10 years. It is already at grid parity. Although my personal hope is for storage, inverters, controllers and other technologies to get cheaper. Especially longer term storage beyond 4 hours.
I think it’s unlikely you see any fossil generation in the mix in 10 years except in the most remote of locations (with no solar or wind potential).
Wind and solar are already around 2 cents/kWh utility scale, and batteries are catching up. No fossil or nuclear generation can compete with that.
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#9Alternatively, dust build up on the solar panels can prevent production of both.
Re: Semi-transparent solar panels allow concurrent production of crops and power
#10I cannot imagine the revolution that solar power will produce if it can fall another 3-5x in the next 10 years. It is already at grid parity. Although my personal hope is for storage, inverters, controllers and other technologies to get cheaper. Especially longer term storage beyond 4 hours.
I think it’s unlikely you see any fossil generation in the mix in 10 years except in the most remote of locations (with no solar or wind potential). Wind and solar are already around 2 cents/kWh utility scale, and batteries are catching up. No fossil or nuclear generation can compete with that.
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