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Largest Farm to Grow Crops Under Solar Panels Proves To Be A Bumper Crop For Agrivoltaic Land Use::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The rainwater would fall off the slanted panels and fall onto the plants.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What is you installed a gutter? And made the down pipe go into a bucket

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Then the plants would have no water and die.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sure you could do that, but... why?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

the water should distribute itself evenly enough on most soils, but yes you could retrofit it with some distribution system.