What is very old is now new and hip again:
“It’s a new, modern approach to agriculture,” Stoffels says. Her contracts with Lightsource allowed her to quit her 9 to 5 job to become a full-time shepherd.
An emerging industry called agrivoltaics combines solar energy production with agricultural activities such as sheep grazing, beekeeping and crop growing. This land management strategy could help alleviate the tension between farmers and solar developers, groups that often have competing land-use interests.
Why oil companies Shell and BP are building solar on farmland (cnbc.com)
My late father-in-law, an electrical engineer working for Sandia National Laboratories, was working on these kinds of projects – in the 1970s and early 1980s. Was also working on co-generation technologies and solar concentrators. What is old is now considered new again – odd.
This story is, as typical of the media, devoid of historical context. The reporter has a BA in Studio Art and International Relations, and an MA in journalism, both from Stanford University (about $82,000 per year in tuition fees, housing, food costs). With no STEM background at all, she focuses on climate change and energy tech, and in her own words, describes herself as a “Journalist-Artist-Activist“. Sounds like a very objective reporter.
