{"id":248088,"date":"2024-03-31T21:16:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T21:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/farmers-in-germany-ready-to-embrace-agrivoltaics\/"},"modified":"2024-03-31T21:16:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T21:16:38","slug":"farmers-in-germany-ready-to-embrace-agrivoltaics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/farmers-in-germany-ready-to-embrace-agrivoltaics\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers In Germany Ready To Embrace Agrivoltaics"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!<\/em><\/p>\n Researchers in Germany associated with the world renowned Fraunhofer ISE have published a new study designed to understand what factors make agrivoltaics \u2014 the practice of combining solar panels with farming \u2014 attractive to those who do actual farming. There is much ballyhoo from fossil fuel interests around the world that seeks to paint renewable energy as an existential threat to agriculture, but it is led by people whose income depends on extracting and burning fossil fuels, not those who are struggling to make a living from farming. In fact, the livelihood of the farming community is threatened more by the byproducts of fossil fuels \u2014 excessive heat, flooding, drought, and wildfires \u2014 than it is by solar panels or wind turbines.<\/p>\n Scheduled to be published in the May 2024 issue of…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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