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https://phys.org/news/2025-06-solar-panels-edge-tomatoes-grown.html


The original where this came from is below I found later

[Last edit: 08/22/25 12:56:48 PM]

8/22/2025 12:48:33 PM

Colorado

https://www.nrel.gov/news/detail/features/2025/solar-panels-give-edge-to-tomatoes-grown-underneath

8/22/2025 12:56:10 PM

Grittyville, WA

Thats some very high tech stuff they are working on. Followed by a low tech taste test...

It doesn't say they were significantly larger though so probably not going to be a game changer for us. Not yet.

8/22/2025 2:48:59 PM

Grittyville, WA

"When full spectrum light shines on a plant, the light contains both productive and damaging photons, and plants have to deal with un-needed light by expending energy to protect itself,” Larson said. “Algae have to do that. Regular plants have to do that. If you were to take the useful vs non-useful wavelengths of light that you need to separate out, collect the non-useful part for electricity and send the other bit through for plant growth, you've now designed a system that's overall more efficiently using solar energy because it's spectrally binning it into different functions—plant growth through photosynthesis versus electricity generation through photovoltaics. This is a unique element of our work, hence, No Photon Left Behind.”

8/22/2025 2:49:36 PM