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Perovskite films on microgrooved plastic film, offset printed roll to roll and rolled out mounted vertically like windbreak netting in orchards.

For example: https://eyouagro.com/blog/citrus-fruits-wind-protection-nett...

Reduces land costs because the land is already being used for crops of one sort or another. Agrivoltaics ftw.



that's fantastic! yeah, you don't want to shade your wheat and corn with solar panels, but oranges and lettuce will benefit from it

it's going to be pretty hard to dethrone silicon after the amount of supply-chain and process optimization that's gone into lowering its costs, but in some sense things like what you're describing seem to make it inevitable at some point




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