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Largest Farm to Grow Crops Under Solar Panels Proves To Be A Bumper Crop For Agrivoltaic Land Use::undefined
minus-squareLudz@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-22 years agoAs this is not mentioned, is it possible to extend the system by collecting rainwater falling on solar panels ?
minus-squarephotonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·2 years agoThe rainwater would fall off the slanted panels and fall onto the plants.
minus-squarepretzelz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoWhat is you installed a gutter? And made the down pipe go into a bucket
minus-squareAosih@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 years agoThen the plants would have no water and die.
minus-squareEdgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoBut what if that bucket was sentient?
minus-squarephotonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 years agoSure you could do that, but… why?
minus-squarechuckd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-22 years agoTo more evenly distribute the collected rainfall rather than to water just the plants sitting under the edge of each solar row? Or to use the rainfall for other farmy things?
minus-squaretryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agothe water should distribute itself evenly enough on most soils, but yes you could retrofit it with some distribution system.
minus-squarephotonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 years agoSure
As this is not mentioned, is it possible to extend the system by collecting rainwater falling on solar panels ?
The rainwater would fall off the slanted panels and fall onto the plants.
What is you installed a gutter? And made the down pipe go into a bucket
Then the plants would have no water and die.
But what if that bucket was sentient?
Sure you could do that, but… why?
To more evenly distribute the collected rainfall rather than to water just the plants sitting under the edge of each solar row? Or to use the rainfall for other farmy things?
the water should distribute itself evenly enough on most soils, but yes you could retrofit it with some distribution system.
Sure