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‘It’s got nasty’: the battle to build the US’s biggest solar power farm (www.theguardian.com)
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A community turns on itself over the aptly named Mammoth solar project, a planned $1.5bn power field nearly the size of Manhattan

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[–] cooljacob204@kbin.social 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Can this really scale up though? Large farms have equally large tractors.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Depends on the crop. See the linked wired article for more info. Also robots are now being used to pick both crops and weeds. They don’t take up as much room as tractors.