This is a beautiful thing to see. On the same apparatus that the panels are mounted on you can also put gutters and drip irrigation. That would go really far. In Napa valley or the other wine growing regions of California this would be a Godsend. All of the water is used as it should be, much less is wasted, and solar can be sold on the grid in the off season. This needs a Tesla Gigafactory in vertical integration. As a holistic system this could go a long way in feeding so many people, and reducing so much waste.
Great idea to incorporate guttering. Maybe you already assumed this but I envision the guttering connected to water tanks so you can avoid flooding fields during high rain and then water them appropriately for days/weeks afterwards with what you stored?
@@RaglansElectricBaboon I am sure that there are many different use cases and appropriate storage. I suggested drip irrigation as a means of avoiding the erosion and waste problem. Storage would be a separate problem. Some cases may yield enough to warrant it, some may not if it is say a short season with mild weather. It would be a really huge boon in places with very unpredictable weather and season like the American Mid-Atlantic. From the diversity gains, you could make a lot more per acre than the standard corn-soy rotation that makes up most farms.
The youtube channel "Now You Know" told us to come see this video. Great work. I was born in Oregon and glad to see such a project. I know this technology would be perfect for some of the desert regions back home.
This is very interesting! My father really wants to get into this kind of farming, and my brother and I want to help. He's been quite interested in solar panels and their uses for a while, and I think this is perfect. I really hope this productive stye of farming becomes more popular, seems like the way of the future. And I hope everyone who commented a year ago is doing alright today!
JUST DO IT... REMEMBER KISS .. KEEP IT SIMPLE.. AND COMMON SENSE (GROWING SHADY CROPS UNDER PV PANELS... USING THE DAILY MOVING SHADOW/OPEN AREAS TO "SPRAY THE CROPS" BELOW WITH SUNSHINE AS THE SUN M9VES ACROSS THE SKY.. ETC...)...👍👍👍👍👍
Want to get invloved in this - I’m a senior, mechanical engineer, own a modest software company - I know a LOT about solar and quite a bit about regenerative agriculture and permaculture - I see this as the was forward for those living in sub-saharan Africa/the Sahel - I don’t care about making money, just want to help/finance people in these areas - in the US - this sounds like an amazing solution in states like california, nevada, new mexico, arizona...etc
Hi Will , may I invite you to please email a short expression of interest to socialinnovation@rocketmail.com They are also looking to a pilot in Southern Africa.
Hi will, I’m currently working with a group of women from the Southern African district, and we are looking into this type of farming, however interested in getting to know more about the engineering aspect of things. Would love to hear from you maybe get a workshop done etc.. how do we get intouch please..
Hey Will, I am an agricultural engineer and working on Agrivoltaics Projects in Europe and Türkiye to discover country specific region and product based for farming. Would like to speak and discuss, thanks!
What you are missing is a semi-transparent solar panel. Well now they actually exist. 2 by 4 ft solar panels 10 to 40 % semitransparent producing 88 to 58 watts per panel. All the power plus light reaching the crops below. That is Agrivoltaics.
No, No...... This is still Industrial mono-culture agriculture dependent on heavy loads of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, fertilizer and water. Just throwing up solar panels will create a new set of problems and it actually exacerbates existing ones. The crops are still far too far away from where people need to eat. You could create the same energy on rooftops in suburbia and convert old warehouses nearby to produce far more for far less. IT would cut down on emissions from tr4anspoort and production while reducing the cost of energy where it is needed. Reducing heat islands, mass power outages, and only causing the same issues that already exist, (mining for materials and building) with this plan, and reduce the other impacts. They could even be placed on green roof to keep the heightened output, and have them put the roofs on the homes of elderly disabled poor folks that need help. Reduce their bills and everyone else in the neighborhood. These farms should not be farms they should be land stewardships and they should be returned to the indigenous people of this country. Grazing herds would restore soil health and start sucking carbon from the atmosphere and cut down on fires. It would reduce the need for all the "cides" and water But hey Keep doing things in a way that makes the few rich and the masses suffer While creating problems instead of solving them... So sick of these half measures. I bet the person who recommended this got a bunch of recognition..... Universities also seem to fund only solutions helping their donors, not their community, another story for another day. I know my grammar sucks, it stopped mattering 20 years ago.
Now you know sub. Hope more people watch this.
This is a beautiful thing to see. On the same apparatus that the panels are mounted on you can also put gutters and drip irrigation. That would go really far. In Napa valley or the other wine growing regions of California this would be a Godsend. All of the water is used as it should be, much less is wasted, and solar can be sold on the grid in the off season. This needs a Tesla Gigafactory in vertical integration. As a holistic system this could go a long way in feeding so many people, and reducing so much waste.
Great idea to incorporate guttering. Maybe you already assumed this but I envision the guttering connected to water tanks so you can avoid flooding fields during high rain and then water them appropriately for days/weeks afterwards with what you stored?
@@RaglansElectricBaboon I am sure that there are many different use cases and appropriate storage. I suggested drip irrigation as a means of avoiding the erosion and waste problem. Storage would be a separate problem. Some cases may yield enough to warrant it, some may not if it is say a short season with mild weather.
It would be a really huge boon in places with very unpredictable weather and season like the American Mid-Atlantic. From the diversity gains, you could make a lot more per acre than the standard corn-soy rotation that makes up most farms.
The youtube channel "Now You Know" told us to come see this video. Great work. I was born in Oregon and glad to see such a project. I know this technology would be perfect for some of the desert regions back home.
Fascinating ideas. I really hope they live up to expectations and be a real agricultural game changer.
Now you know promoted this video. Keep up the good work.
Interesting. Now You Know.
Now you know brought me here
This is very interesting! My father really wants to get into this kind of farming, and my brother and I want to help. He's been quite interested in solar panels and their uses for a while, and I think this is perfect. I really hope this productive stye of farming becomes more popular, seems like the way of the future. And I hope everyone who commented a year ago is doing alright today!
JUST DO IT... REMEMBER KISS .. KEEP IT SIMPLE.. AND COMMON SENSE (GROWING SHADY CROPS UNDER PV PANELS... USING THE DAILY MOVING SHADOW/OPEN AREAS TO "SPRAY THE CROPS" BELOW WITH SUNSHINE AS THE SUN M9VES ACROSS THE SKY.. ETC...)...👍👍👍👍👍
Now at age 59, I want to go back to school and do research on this. :-)
hope you do well friend. :)
I like the way you make me aware of the future of agriculture. I am an Indonesian farmer.
Great video. So happy being part of agrivoltaics.
Keep pushing it to be our new reality!
Want to get invloved in this - I’m a senior, mechanical engineer, own a modest software company - I know a LOT about solar and quite a bit about regenerative agriculture and permaculture - I see this as the was forward for those living in sub-saharan Africa/the Sahel - I don’t care about making money, just want to help/finance people in these areas - in the US - this sounds like an amazing solution in states like california, nevada, new mexico, arizona...etc
Hi Will , may I invite you to please email a short expression of interest to socialinnovation@rocketmail.com
They are also looking to a pilot in Southern Africa.
Hope these projects reach success.
@@rudolfespinola9231 me too!! Just saw a massive agri-voltaic project in a desert in China - was working beautifully!!!
Hi will, I’m currently working with a group of women from the Southern African district, and we are looking into this type of farming, however interested in getting to know more about the engineering aspect of things. Would love to hear from you maybe get a workshop done etc.. how do we get intouch please..
Hey Will, I am an agricultural engineer and working on Agrivoltaics Projects in Europe and Türkiye to discover country specific region and product based for farming. Would like to speak and discuss, thanks!
What you are missing is a semi-transparent solar panel. Well now they actually exist. 2 by 4 ft solar panels 10 to 40 % semitransparent producing 88 to 58 watts per panel. All the power plus light reaching the crops below. That is Agrivoltaics.
What a creative idea...really appreciate such thinking..
And Now you know!
Now you know sub over here. This is so informative. Hope this gets adopt ide as soon as possible
This is great!
There are solar panels out there that claim to be able to harvest water out of the air. Imagine that in an Agrivoltaic project.
Now you know!!!
Aquaponic is the FUTURE !!!
we need to double food production for a 25% increase in population ?
Me too
Sir how can I read this paper
Systems thinking: yes, thought as a verb rather than a noun...
No, No......
This is still Industrial mono-culture agriculture dependent on heavy loads of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, fertilizer and water.
Just throwing up solar panels will create a new set of problems and it actually exacerbates existing ones.
The crops are still far too far away from where people need to eat.
You could create the same energy on rooftops in suburbia and convert old warehouses nearby to produce far more for far less. IT would cut down on emissions from tr4anspoort and production while reducing the cost of energy where it is needed. Reducing heat islands, mass power outages, and only causing the same issues that already exist, (mining for materials and building) with this plan, and reduce the other impacts.
They could even be placed on green roof to keep the heightened output, and have them put the roofs on the homes of elderly disabled poor folks that need help. Reduce their bills and everyone else in the neighborhood.
These farms should not be farms they should be land stewardships and they should be returned to the indigenous people of this country.
Grazing herds would restore soil health and start sucking carbon from the atmosphere and cut down on fires. It would reduce the need for all the "cides" and water
But hey
Keep doing things in a way that makes the few rich and the masses suffer
While creating problems instead of solving them...
So sick of these half measures.
I bet the person who recommended this got a bunch of recognition.....
Universities also seem to fund only solutions helping their donors, not their community, another story for another day.
I know my grammar sucks, it stopped mattering 20 years ago.