• rabidhamster@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    Yep, gotten into that argument, got downvoted into oblivion by pointing out that covering 80% of the space above crops with sun-blocking solar panels might, you know, affect the crops.

    Was confidently told that crops only need about 4 hours of sunlight, lol.

    • bountygiver [any]@lemmy.ml
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      7 hours ago

      However, you can easily replace all corn farms that were used for ethanol production and produce more energy per unit of land

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      1 day ago

      I genuinely wish we could disable the upvote and downvote counters. Its 99% group think and it isn’t healthy for the discussion.

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      1 day ago

      I mean all of that is big ol fat case depends. Like elevation distance from equator, time of year, what crop and at stage of development.