• Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
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    6 days ago

    Not arguing, trying to understand.

    Doesn’t the covered farm land require the same thing? They’re not hucking the panels out into the field and leaving them on the ground. They’re creating raised platforms to put them on. And they’re obviously going to have maintainence and cleaning and repair as well.

    I know it’s more expensive in a parking lot, because that platform is taller, but to my (entirely uneducated on the subject) thinking, it seems like taller platform is the only real difference

    • zxqwas@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      Depends on where you live and how high it is. Here 2m or higher the worker has to use equipment to prevent falling injuries.
      At lower heights you can use a regular front loader, maybe on the farmers tractor.

      The reason this is not done is not because no one thought about it before.