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Lightstar, which uses a model where landowners receive lease payments, has agrivoltaics projects under construction throughout the country; in California, the company is waiting for the state to release its new community solar program, which will offer better solar energy rates for residents with low and moderate incomes.
I wonder if they measured the lithium mining and energy that went into constructing the solar panels. How about we don’t build a permanent house for the chickens at all and use a portable structure that moves around pastures where manure doesn’t have to be dehydrated or hauled anywhere. Or that statistics can prove anything.
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Focus on Solutions Although there are clear, negative impacts for agriculture, the agriculture chapter effectively lays out the ways in which agriculture can respond constructively to increasing challenges. Some solutions offered include grass banks for pasture areas experiencing drought as well as temporary leasing of water.
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