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Combining Solar Panels With Agriculture Makes Land More Productive

Solar panels are wonderful things, but they do take up a lot of space, especially for larger, utility-scale systems. In some densely populated countries like China and India, where loss of farmland can lead to hungry people, floating solar farms are being built to take advantage of the surface area of lakes and rivers. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute For ….

Combining Solar Panels With Agriculture Makes Land More Productive January 11th, 2018Scudder Solar