no pics of the sheep:(
Wouldn’t this ruin the desert ecosystem actually? This is not libposting I’m asking genuinely.
Believe this is part or at least collaboration with the Great Green Wall initiative, they’ve done other things in the region like planting drought tolerant trees to hold back the sand. The villages near the solar farm stated in a different article there was a point they were having to buy feed because the grasses avaliable were no longer enough to sustain their flocks.
https://english.news.cn/20231117/ea71c3c193134548a358a9ae9fb5852c/c.html
So this is fighting against desertification. This is very cool actually!
These sheep are eating grass fertilized with the bodies of a hundred trillion Tibetan monks that were bulldozed into the shape of the Himalaya mountains! That is the cost for this, you monsters!
The panels break the force of the wind, shade the soil, and allow water used for cleaning the panels to seep into the ground rather than disappear right away.
Wow!
Grass growing under the panels may look like a victory, but too much of it can shade solar modules, cut efficiency, and raise fire risks during dry months.
Oh no!
That is where the sheep came in. Solar workers and local herders found that grazing animals could keep vegetation low while fertilizing the ground at the same time.
YAY!
I won’t spoil the rest. Great story. Thank you for sharing.
it really is a neat synergy between nature and technology here
