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- China wants to put a solar farm in space by 2025 https://www.engadget.com/2019/02/18/china-solar-farm-power-station-space-2025/ 59 comments
- Putting The Farming In Solar Farms https://www.forbes.com/sites/mitsubishiheavyindustries/2022/05/25/putting-the-farming-in-solar-farms/?sh=4393440f8119 3 comments environment
- China wants to put a solar farm in space by 2025 https://www.engadget.com/2019/02/18/china-solar-farm-power-station-space-2025/ 5 comments space
- China wants to put a solar farm in space by 2025 https://www.engadget.com/2019/02/18/china-solar-farm-power-station-space-2025 50 comments space
- Solar farms put cow comfort and crop yield ahead of harvesting electrons https://reneweconomy.com.au/solar-farms-that-put-cow-comfort-and-crop-yield-ahead-of-harvesting-electrons/ 11 comments renewableenergy
- Solar farms are booming in the US and putting thousands of hungry sheep to work https://apnews.com/article/sheep-solar-texas-climate-333e72167bcf24047257e1be352ce1a9 15 comments renewableenergy
- 'Shovel ready': Spanish firm to put $500m into Australian wind and solar farm - “ambitious” target of 10GW by 2022. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/23/shovel-ready-spanish-firm-to-put-500m-into-australian-wind-and-solar-farm 9 comments technology
- Are There Better Places to Put Large Solar Farms Than These Forests? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/21/opinion/environment/solar-panels-virginia-climate-change.html 8 comments renewableenergy
- Are There Better Places to Put Large Solar Farms Than These Forests? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/21/opinion/environment/solar-panels-virginia-climate-change.html 11 comments environment
- Opinion | Are There Better Places to Put Large Solar Farms Than These Forests? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/21/opinion/environment/solar-panels-virginia-climate-change.html 124 comments energy
- $1.5 billion Solar Farm in Indiana will be the largest in the United States, putting out 1.6 GW when finished in 2024 https://interestingengineering.com/15-billion-mammoth-solar-farm-the-largest-in-the-us 109 comments futurology
- Can America's canals double as solar farms? | Studies show that putting solar panels over waterways could boost clean energy and conserve water. The first U.S. pilot project is getting underway in California. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/can-americas-canals-double-as-solar-farms 193 comments upliftingnews
- Solar panels reduce CO2 emissions more per acre than trees - response to “Are There Better Places to Put Large Solar Farms Than These Forests?” https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechange/2022/10/25/response-to-the-new-york-times-essay-are-there-better-places-to-put-large-solar-farms-than-these-forests/ 5 comments environment
- Solar panels reduce CO2 emissions more per acre than trees - response to “Are There Better Places to Put Large Solar Farms Than These Forests?” https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechange/2022/10/25/response-to-the-new-york-times-essay-are-there-better-places-to-put-large-solar-farms-than-these-forests/ 121 comments energy
- The lurking threat to solar power’s growth Plummeting sunny day solar prices are undermining the economic case to build more solar farms – and putting climate goals at risk. https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/14/1028461/solar-value-deflation-california-climate-change/ 10 comments energy
- China is putting its shoulder to the wheel to turn the Kubuqi Desert in Inner Mongolia into a vast solar farm 400 kilometers (250 miles) long and 5 kilometers (3 miles) wide. When completed, it will have a maximum generating capacity of 100 gigawatts — enough to power the entire city of Beijing. https://cleantechnica.com/2024/12/31/the-great-solar-wall-of-china/ 41 comments climate
- I’m Sammy Roth, an L.A. Times reporter trying to figure out where to put all the solar and wind farms we'll need to fight climate change. Is farmland the answer? AMA! https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/10y30vm/im_sammy_roth_an_la_times_reporter_trying_to/ 2 comments politics