Monday, 22 March 2021

Lettuce grows just fine in solar-panel greenhouses

Lettuce grows just fine in solar-panel greenhouses

The findings demonstrate the feasibility of using see-through solar panels in greenhouses to generate electricity. “We were a little surprised—there was no real reduction in plant growth or health,” says Heike Sederoff, a professor of plant biology at North Carolina State University and co-corresponding author of the study in Cell Reports Physical Science. “It means the idea of integrating transparent solar cells into greenhouses can be done.”
Read more: https://www.futurity.org/solar-panels-greenhouses-lettuce-2533812-2/?source=Snapzu

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