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The Battle Over Solar on Farmland | Agrivoltaics is either a green revolution or a poison pill for good land. Depends which farmers you ask. (www.motherjones.com)

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[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Long-distance electricity transport is exponentially lossy, and it makes people dependent on vulnerable centralized infrastructure. So your first suggestion is more practical on a national/continental scale.

Solar panels could also be placed on parking lots of dead malls and other decaying suburban infrastructure.

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

logarithmically lossy

[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why do you say that? Intuitively every kilometer takes the same fraction of the remaining electicity, which creates an exponential curve. Technically the loss fraction would be 1 minus the exponential curve, but that's still an exponential function. Is there something about power generation that makes it a log function of distance?

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 0 points 5 months ago

Power throughput follows a logarithm