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Win-win situation: Growing crops on photovoltaic farms
2014-04-09 21:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Growing agave and other carefully chosen plants amid photovoltaic panels could allow solar farms not only to collect sunlight for electricity but also to produce crops for biofuels, according to new computer models by Stanford scientists. This co-location approach could prove especially useful in sunny, arid regions such as the southwestern United States where water is scarce, said Sujith Ravi, who is conducting postdoctoral research with professors David Lobell and Chris Field, both on faculty...
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