"Shade is supposed to be the enemy of a farm.
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@antanicus This reminds me a bit of fruit walls, the technique that northern Europeans used in the 17th century to create teeny microclimates for a specific crop: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/fruit-walls-urban-farming-in-the-1600s/
I first learned about those at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden; they have examples of that espalier pruning technique in their collection.
They still exist in various ways with differences in different countries.
Crinkle crankle wall - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crinkle_crankle_wallPics: slangenmuur at DuckDuckGo (Dutch)
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=slangenmuur&l=nl-nl&rpl=1&ia=images&iax=imagesCrinkle crankle wall at DuckDuckGo (English)
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"Shade is supposed to be the enemy of a farm. Crops chase sunlight, so roofing a field with panels ought to starve them. Yet plot after plot came in with more fruit, not less, and the plants looked healthier than the ones baking in the open. Stranger still, the shaded rows did it while drinking far less water. (...) Chiltepin pepper plants produced three times as much fruit as those grown in full sun. Jalapenos matched their usual harvest while using 65 percent less water. Tomatoes grown under the array came in at twice the normal yield."
Good luck achieving that with a nuclear reactor.
https://energiesmedia.com/solar-panels-farmland-crops-agrivoltaics/
@antanicus Agrivoltaics is a rare win-win: solar panels cut thermal stress and evaporation while generating clean power. Doubling crop yields on 65% less water completely shatters the "food vs. energy" soil conflict. Decentralized, multi-use infrastructure beats single-purpose energy plants every time.
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"Shade is supposed to be the enemy of a farm. Crops chase sunlight, so roofing a field with panels ought to starve them. Yet plot after plot came in with more fruit, not less, and the plants looked healthier than the ones baking in the open. Stranger still, the shaded rows did it while drinking far less water. (...) Chiltepin pepper plants produced three times as much fruit as those grown in full sun. Jalapenos matched their usual harvest while using 65 percent less water. Tomatoes grown under the array came in at twice the normal yield."
Good luck achieving that with a nuclear reactor.
https://energiesmedia.com/solar-panels-farmland-crops-agrivoltaics/
“Shade is supposed to be the enemy of a farm”
I thought that the fact that some plants thrive in the sunlight and some thrive in the shade was pretty much obviously known
And that at least farmers would know that which plants are which depend both on the plant and the location / climate where you're trying to grow them
And that the non obvious bit that requires nontrivial experiments is actually finding out which ones are which in the various places in a changing climate
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"Shade is supposed to be the enemy of a farm. Crops chase sunlight, so roofing a field with panels ought to starve them. Yet plot after plot came in with more fruit, not less, and the plants looked healthier than the ones baking in the open. Stranger still, the shaded rows did it while drinking far less water. (...) Chiltepin pepper plants produced three times as much fruit as those grown in full sun. Jalapenos matched their usual harvest while using 65 percent less water. Tomatoes grown under the array came in at twice the normal yield."
Good luck achieving that with a nuclear reactor.
https://energiesmedia.com/solar-panels-farmland-crops-agrivoltaics/
RE: https://floss.social/@ygor/115349153074693462
@antanicus I'm thinking back to the book I read last year, and wondering what that means for the LER. Could it be higher than 2?
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