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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)

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