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Tuesday, June 18 - Farming for calories and kilowatts
9 minutes Posted Jun 18, 2024 at 10:32 am.
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America needs more renewable energy, and of course it needs food--and those two demands are on a collision course over farmland. Solar power is the fastest growing source of renewable power, but solar farms can take land out of crop production. As Harvest Public Media’s Frank Morris reports, a growing field of study is searching for ways to get calories and kilowatts off the same land.