#Demonstration Projects

[colinwilson11]

United States Agrivoltaics : Rise Of Agrivoltaics In The American Farming

As climate change threatens global food supplies, agrivoltaic systems are gaining popularity in the United States as a way for farmers to boost solar energy production while continuing to harvest crops beneath solar panels. Also known as "agrophotovoltaics", agrivoltaic installations combine agriculture and solar power generation on the same land. By installing solar panels elevated high enough to allow farm equipment and livestock access to the ground below, farmers can generate solar power and grow crops or graze livestock simultaneously on the same parcel of land.

Benefits For Farmers And Food Security

Agrivoltaic systems provide multiple benefits for farmers and the environment. In addition to generating a steady additional revenue stream from solar electricity sales, studies have found that certain crops grown beneath solar panels have higher yields compared to directly exposed to sunlight. United States Agrivoltaics The partial shading from solar panels protects some crops from excessive heat and regulates soil moisture, improving overall productivity. For livestock grazing, the shade from panels protects animals from heat stress which has been shown to increase their health, growth rates and milk production. These dual-use installations are helping increase overall land productivity at a time when climate pressures are exacerbating food security risks.

Potential For Expanded Deployment 

Currently, there are a few agrivoltaic pilot projects operating across the United States but their adoption remains limited compared to conventional ground-mounted solar farms. However, as the agricultural benefits become clearer and technology improves to maximize both energy and food outputs,  experts expect agrivoltaics to play a much larger role in the country's clean energy transition. Some estimates suggest agrivoltaic systems could potentially generate hundreds of gigawatts of solar power on available farmland if deployed at sufficient scale. States with vast agricultural areas like California, the Midwest and Plains regions are well positioned to lead the way.

Project Developers Tout Multiple Cropping Options

Early agrivoltaic projects in the United States Agrivoltaics  have tested growing a variety of crops beneath solar panels including grapes, olives, berries and vegetables. Developers say that with proper panel elevation and optimization of lighting conditions, row crops like lettuce, onions and carrots can also thrive. Livestock operations are integrating panels for grazing dairy cattle and lamb. Ongoing research is exploring additional dual-use combinations suited for different soil types and microclimates across farming regions. Producers are also experimenting with staggered panel installation to allow continued mechanical harvesting of commodity row crops like corn and alfalfa. As more multi-year yield data becomes available, farmers' confidence in agrivoltaics is increasing.

Tailoring Technology To Farming Needs 

A challenge for wider deployment remains ensuring agrivoltaic systems are economically viable propositions for farmers and easy to incorporate into their existing operations. US developers are working to refine mounting configurations, panel elevations and integrated smart technologies to maximize both solar energy generation and agricultural outputs specific to local growing conditions and crop varieties. There is also ongoing innovation related to access for machinery and irrigation systems beneath panels. Additional research partnerships involving farmers, land grant universities and the national labs are vital to further adapt agrivoltaic technologies and successfully demonstrate scalable business models tailored for different commodity crop types.

Overcoming Permitting And Policy Hurdles 

In addition to technology challenges, policy and permitting issues have slowed the scaling of agrivoltaic projects. Some state and local regulations do not yet account for dual-use of farmland and view agrivoltaics as competing land uses rather than complementary. Renewable energy incentives also often only apply to standalone solar farms versus agrivoltaic systems.  advocates are working with policymakers to establish legal recognition and support for agrivoltaics through measures like revised zoning definitions, streamlined permitting procedures and tailored financial incentive programs. Widespread adoption will require acknowledgement from governing bodies that these installations can provide compatible and sustainable multi-functional land use.

Outlook

As concerns intensify about long-term global food security in the face of interconnected economic, environmental and geopolitical pressures, United States Agrivoltaics  are gaining recognition as a means to boost domestic farming resiliency. By sustainably increasing total land productivity, these dual-use systems could make a meaningful contribution to both energy and agriculture production if scaling challenges are addressed. With ongoing technological enhancements, successful demonstration projects, revised policies and expanding cooperative efforts, the outlook is positive for agrivoltaics to emerge as an important complement to America's clean energy transition and agricultural landscape in the coming decade.

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[sherrickmads]

be mine, v͟a͟l͟e͟n͟t͟i͟n͟e͟?

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

Trump planned this in advance. ICE were pre-positioned there in advance in large numbers, with armored vehicles, and full battle gear. They unnecessarily used provocative tactics while bursting into businesses such as throwing flash-bang grenades at onlookers and then pepper spraying them while they were looking for undocumented people. Administrators from Homeland Security and ICE were also there ahead of time. Further Trump had the order to mobilize the National Guard ready to go before the action began. Marines from Camp Pendleton also were on alert for possible deployment.

You’ll also notice nobody is talking about the Big Ugly Bill that calls for Medicaid cuts. Everyone also stopped talking about Elon Musks’ claim that Trump is on the Epstein client list. Also Trump’s second Muslim Ban has barely got a mention in the press.

[dkettchen]

she would've told them unlike her canon! version who decided not to be an ally smh

[hey-heigo]

erm spoilers lol

ponifies your condemnation

[lonestarflight]

Gemini erector is lowered during final countdown exercises for Gemini-Titan 3 on LC-19 at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Date: March 19, 1965

NASA ID: 65-H-406, S65-20638

[firestorm09890]

what's the june 985 thing you mentioned in the demian post yesterday? i feel like i missed something important

oh boy okay so in this limbus company pv, near the end, the map of the City zooms out and you can see the population and date in the top left corner

around 6 billion, 730-something million.

within a split-second, it becomes 6 billion, 425 million. 300 million+ people die.

It continues to drop about 5 more million before the video cuts out.

So basically "June 985" is my way of referring to whatever great calamity causes 300 million people to die. Some people, like me, believe that it will happen when Dante's clock hits midnight, since it seems strikingly similar to the Doomsday Clock, which measures how close we are to "human-made global catastrophe".

And as you might know from Dante's Notes, it is currently January of 985!

[revoevokukil]

This emerged in the middle of writing up thoughts on Ciri and Avallac'h based on the books alone.

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The Witcher’s theme of choice and destiny is complicated by psychological barriers – one must be emotionally ready to accept the way the dice can fall.

Interestingly, Avallac’h’s rejection mirrors how Lara rejected the plans for her destiny. His rejection of Ciri's offer ironically puts him in the position of resisting destiny – the very 'crime' he condemned Lara for committing.

Elves had plans for Lara – to stay and have special children. She rejected this. Elven goals were upended.

For Ciri, Avallac’h has orchestrated a destiny, but when Ciri gets sick of the official programme not working out and offers herself to him directly – effectively suggesting getting the goal they want faster – she gets rebuked. She’s creating an unexpected path to achieving the elves’ goals; one where she shows agency in choosing the father.

In poetic justice, Avallac’h is mirroring Lara’s rejection of the elves’ plans: the man who spent centuries judging Lara for prioritizing personal choice over racial destiny ends up making essentially the same choice, but from the opposite side of the equation. In rejecting Ciri's offer at that point, he implicitly asserts that the manner in which destiny unfolds matters, not just the outcome.

Avallac’h, however, seems blind to this parallel between himself and Lara.

This suggests though, that perhaps Avallac'h's centuries of resentment toward Lara concealed a deeper, unacknowledged understanding of her choice – one that surfaces in his own moment of revelation. You cannot force it if you are not ready for it, but avoiding it will bring consequences. The sword of destiny is double-edged.

Sapkowski often structures his narrative so as to force characters to confront their own contradictions, often without them fully recognizing the pattern they’re repeating or inverting.

[tenderqueso]

id5 whispering in my ear through the artbook "you haven't written fanfic for over a decade but you need to write doomed isafrin. right now. right now"

[vivalgi]

This post is primarily meant for all the doubters, naysayers and people in denial who ganged up against me when I first declared my suspicions that wannabe Malfoy revealed on @candlelightgames' Instagram post might be AI generated.

I will point out some of the most obvious signs of AI usage after the break but first I want to quote Owen Wilson: "Wow!" Usually half the AI image detectors fail to do their job, but never before have I seen such a unanimous decision - all 7 out of 7 online tools that I managed to find are saying that the Project Spellstruck's first character art is most likely AI:

Now, onto the analysis. People are still expecting clearly visible errors from generated images, such as irregular amount of fingers or something going through another object, but AI has come a long way and it's becoming harder to point out obvious signs without focusing hard. It's even able to create a vague resemblance of symmetry and repeating elements. AI generated art isn't often published "straight out of the oven" either. Artists-prompters make the AI do a lot of inpainting and add their own little touch-ups until the images are more or less presentable. A character has 16 fingers? Just mark the problematic area you want to be regenerated, maybe even make a rough sketch over it and then have the program do its job again. Even Bardick's design evolution, CL has demonstrated, looks very similar to the typical AI-assisted workflow I just described:

It's hard to put into words what makes art feel and look AI, but don't worry, doubters, I can also point out some strange elements that strongly hint at this character art being largely made by AI.

Below is the highest quality image I could get, so you can come back to it and zoom in if you want to see the clean version without my scribbles:

The coat's lapels

In the corner of the left lapel there's this triangular piece:

Whatever it's meant to be, it's a single solid object and not nearly as incoherent as what's happening on the opposite side:

The triangular shape seems to be made up of 3 disconnected sticks and the ends of the golden protruding lines that flow into that corner, become intrusions, although they don't line up very well either. Try to explain what the artist was attempting to do here. It's a very clear example of AI making up some fuzzy incoherent details. No need to find any further evidence really, but let's move on.

Occasional double vision effect around the edge of the golden hem, creating parallel running lines (a typical thing I've noticed image generators tend to do):

The pants and belt

That wobbly dotted line is the edge of his pants:

I've also traced the lines of the belt buckle, so you can see exactly how much it makes sense upon closer look. Not a lot, right? Also, the prong melts into the buckle, doesn't even go through the belt's hole and there's more fuzzy scribble around it.

Shadows

The shirt's collar creates shadows to both sides of it:

The lighting source seems to be behind the guy as the corner of the collar is further from the viewer than the shadow it casts:

Some other shadows are suspicious as well but not so obviously bad to confidently demonstrate them.

This is not an attempt to turn anyone against AI, but merely an analysis to show the most obvious signs that this dude was probably more or less generated by AI. If you like this kind of artificial art and are fine with Candlelight or any other studio/artist using it, then I won't stop you from enjoying it. If you have a hard time recognizing AI art then I truly envy you, ignorance is bliss as the saying goes. However, please don't come to proudly demonstrate your ignorance and argue with me or even worse, try to make fun of me because you think I'm wrong in saying that this character art was generated with AI. As I've now proven, it most likely is. It's too early to turn into an overprotective fangirl over a project we still know barely anything about.

[colinwilson11]

Agrivoltaic systems, also known as solar farming, integrate solar panels and crop or livestock agriculture on the same land area. This emerging clean energy technology allows farmers to generate solar power while continuing to farm or graze livestock beneath and among the solar panels. Early examples of agrivoltaic systems use raised solar panels high enough above ground to allow sufficient sunlight to still reach crops growing underneath. Additional designs tilt the panels at an angle to optimize energy generation from the sun while minimizing shading impacts on vegetation.

[neechees]

Theres this employee who works/(d?) at the rez school as a teacher, usually as a sewing or art teacher, and she would volunteer to buy school supplies for the students every year so that the school itself wouldnt have to (as we are very much underfunded) but she keeps doing this thing where at the end of the year she'll say "i bought these materials, so they're mine now" & take whatever is ldft home, and she did this with the art supplies so now I have to create a new supply list as the new teacher.

Like what was the point of volunteering to buy supplies FOR THE STUDENTS, which no one forced you to do, if youre just gunna take the rest back for yourself "because you bought it"???

[the-alan-price-combo]

60 years ago - on November 16th, 1964, the Animals recorded "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"!! 🐾✨️

[isabelleadjani]

the face of decay, truly

[whatudottu]

Regarding your cerebrocrustacean headcanons mentioned in the previous ask: they very well could be somewhat canon given how, when asked if Albedo and Dr. Psychobos would be willing to work together, Derrick J. Wyatt responded with "Psychobos seems like a total team up slut, he'll team up with any villain any time" (his words, not mine).

Which he likely meant in the sense of "Psychobos is so power-hungry he'll team up with anyone in order to get ahead", but with your headcanons and the fact he never talks much about his personal life in mind, you could alternatively interpret it as "Psychobos is so desperately lonely he'll accept anyone he has even the slightest similarity with into his clique, even members of a species he's violently xenophobic towards" (probably to cope with/serve as a rebound for his mancrush Azmuth friendzoning him /lh /hj).

Now all of this is making me realize that it was a massive missed opportunity in Omniverse to not have Psychobos' demeanor do a complete 180 around the people he works with compared to everyone else (whether sincere or a thinly-veiled manipulation tactic) if not solely for a few jokes. Especially him acting like an affectionate father figure towards Malware (whether he likes it or not) solely so he can rub it in Azmuth's face that "I'm a FAR more attentive and caring parental figure towards your creation than YOU ever were, and I use the term loosely".

WHAT DO YOU MEAN DJW SAID 'TEAM UP SLUT' HAHAH WHAT!? dear god it's true it's on the wiki what the fuck what the fuck assdfjhghsdlfkgfkl-!

I mean, look at his already canon group; Khyber, allegedly the greatest huntsman in the galaxy, teaming up with Dr Psychobos to make a little watch that can sample (specifically predatory) animals; and Malware, a technology absorbing mutant mechamorph, working with the cybernetically enhanced (also listed as a mutant???) cerebrocrustacean in order to make said watch- if liking the concept of animals and incorporating machines as part of oneself is enough to get into Dr Psychobos' clique well, he's certainly stretched what that means far enough to at least snag two others into his initial team up. Same can't be said for Attea and the incurseans which seems to be more of a sponsor type relationship, and Maltruant commissioned him to repair his body but violated the trade agreement so whether or not Psychobos would do business with the incurseans again, he's already squarely sequestered Maltruant in the outest of out-groups :P

Hah, the 'Dr Psychobos adopting Malware specifically to stick it to Azmuth' bit reminded me of a signing-the-adoption-papers version of the 'I throw my used car batteries in the ocean' thing- something along the lines of; [psychobos voice] "You are the most calamitous individual I have had the pleasure of meeting, and I use the term loosely." [malware voice, threateningly] "I have devoured and absorbed the specs of the Omnitrix." [psychobos signing adoption papers] [malware, experiencing the affects of cerebrocrustacean in-grouping and having no frame of reference on how to deal with it] "What the fuck is happening-"

[skrunksthatwunk]

R, Mako & Ryuko both bisexual, lesbian, or pansexual?

[OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT KILL LA KILL SPOTTED] ok SO. i feel very strongly that ryuko is a lesbian if she's into anyone at all. i've talked a lot about what i think the wedding dress scene means for her character and her relationship to, in short, gender + romantic conformity and non-queerness. it's her being tempted by the safety and community (the family) that being a Regular Girl Wifey like her gross fascy mom wants would bring her, which she ultimately rejects because of mako and senketsu's intervention. that stuff isn't her. she would have to erase a lot of herself to fit into that image. she is not meant to play that role, and if she tried, she would no longer be ryuko.

there's a lot of wonderful readings of this, i.e. genderqueer, aro/ace/aroace, and even non-queer gnc interpretations, because rejecting gender roles regarding romance, social status, etc carries weight for a lot of those groups. but when i watched that scene as somebody who recently figured out they're a lesbian, that's the lens i saw it through, and it meant a lot to me. it still does, obviously. actually, klk broadly means a lot to me for sapphic reasons, but that's even more of a digression. MY POINT IS i think she's a lesbian and i am very insistent, at the very least, that she's not into guys.

but for mako i'm like yk what go crazy. i think bi/pan readings of her make sense and i think lesbian readings of her make sense, and i'm not particularly passionate about either. i just know she's absolutely crazy about ryuko, and shows clear and obvious I LIKE WOMEN I THINK WOMEN ARE HOT signs throughout the show, which is so real of her. i think i read her as a lesbian bc i don't think she shows any signs of being into guys? in the series? but 1) that's an interpretation thing 2) i could be misremembering some stuff, as it's been a little bit.

tl;dr ryuko's a lesbian to me and i feel very strongly about that and mako can be whatever so long as she's still sapphic, but i think i read her as a lesbian. if you asked me two months from now, maybe i'd say she's pan. who knows~ anyway ryuko and mako are dating and they're canon idc idc

anyway this question made me think of this yt comment i screenshotted like a year ago lol. sums it up ig