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Cake day: March 2nd, 2023

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  • This may sounds crazy but hear me out: planting gardens in the ground, putting solar panels on roofs, not the other way around.

    The articles does mention another option:

    growing crops under solar panels, a burgeoning field known as rooftop agrivoltaics

    That sounds interesting. I hope the cost is going to be studied. Growing vertically and on rooftop can be worse in some ways. More energy intensive if there’s a need for irrigation that requires more pumps to bring extra water to rooftop. More material intensive if the weight of soil require more concrete and steel so the building can support it.