The climate change debate continues.

[Siso]

They actually doctored the footage to mislead the public or do you believe it was a coincidence. This is one fight I hope trump wins and hopefully the public broadcasters learn from it.

[octave]

 

52 minutes ago, Siso said:

Actuators are used for the panels to follow the sun. Some of these have rods that control more than 1 panel.

There are many trials of agrivoltaics going on in Australia and overseas.   I

 

My assumption is that with all these trials going on and some already operating agrivolatic farms that things like the stock damaging the accuators or other parts is a known quantity.  I am sure it would not suit every farm type or location, but a search of the net does show sheep and cattle and crops (mainly veges and grape vines, etc where partial shade is preferable.

 

Edited 14 hours ago by octave

[pmccarthy]

The greatest enemies of solar farms must be fire and hailstorms. In the USA I would add tornados, but not so much here. Presumably they are insurable events, and the premiums will just be built into the cost of power. They will be fairly rare, so not too expensive compared to distribution costs.

[red750]

This was kept quiet.

 

A massive new Tesla Megapack-powered battery energy storage system (BESS) is now officially online in Victoria, Australia, marking the largest completed battery project on the country’s main grid — and one of the biggest operational grid batteries in the world. 

 

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