Cash-strapped farms are growing a new crop: Solar panels -
Studies have found that several crops have higher yields when grown in the shade of solar panels. In many cases, these crops also require less irrigation because the shaded soil loses less water.
Full-sun crops can still be planted in the space between the solar panels, and farmers can also make extra money from selling renewable solar energy to utility companies.
The idea of combining solar panels with agriculture (called “agrovoltaics”) began in Japan, where it is much more popular. However, the concept is beginning to catch on in other countries.
“We’re really just at the very beginning of understanding the benefits of agrivoltaics and what they could mean not only for the energy sector but also for the agricultural sector.”
Thanks to @theorangedead for sending this in!
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On this day, 24 April 1954, British colonial authorities in Nairobi, Kenya, began Operation Anvil, to ethnically cleanse Kikuyu people from the city. With the background of the Mau Mau insurgency, which was largely made up of members of the Kikuyu community, the British believed they could destroy the movement for “land and freedom” which they thought was led from Nairobi.
So over a two-week period, troops shut down the city, block by block and abducted every member of the Kikuyu and related Embu and Maru tribes. They were interrogated, then divided into groups depending on how supportive they allegedly were of the Mau Mau movement. Those believed to be more militant were sent for interrogation, torture and detention, while those without Mau Mau affiliation were deported to overcrowded “reserves”.
By the time it was over, apart from a small number of workers with long-term contracts with European employers, nearly the whole Kikuyu population of the city was gone, with 20,000 sent for “screening” and 30,000 to reserves. At most, those abducted could only take one bag of possessions, with the rest looted by British troops.
Rather than quell the insurgency, the brutal repression caused opposition to colonial rule to increase.
This is a short video history of the events: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk3RWZ-ufAA
Pictured: people detained in the operation https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1408858752632604/?type=3
That’s my analysis.
If you think otherwise, I’m happy to have tbe discussion but your evidence must be solid, your arguments REASONED and your mind open. Thanks.
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On this day, 29 March 1986, anti-fascists got wind of a secret meeting which was due to take place in the small Dutch town of Kedichem to reunify two fascist political parties: the Centrum Partij and Centrum Democraten. They initially threw a smoke bomb into the hotel where the meeting was taking place, however it accidentally set the curtains on fire and within minutes the building went up in flames, causing the fascists to have to flee into the rioting outside. The proposed merger didn’t take place. More info in this short history of Dutch anti-fascism: https://ift.tt/291vpur https://ift.tt/2Uiw9XI
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