Sheep Grazing A "Best Practice" For Maintaining Ground-Level Solar Arrays

[OKIsItJustMe]

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Sheep Grazing A "Best Practice" For Maintaining Ground-Level Solar Arrays

by John Laumer, Philadelphia on 08.29.09
Business & Politics (news)


Sheep grazing amidst a solar panel array.
Image credit:http://blogs.sas.com/jmp/index.php?/archives/209-Solar-Array-Surprises.html">JMP.blog

Grazing sheep are a practical means of controlling weeds and grasses that otherwise would block the sun from ground-level solar arrays. The practice, begun in Europe, may well become a world standard, and has already spread to America (see below for example).

The requisite fence around the solar farm perimeter not only 'keeps the sheeps,' it fences out peeps who might otherwise steal the sheeps...and panels. So, it's something insurance companies have come to insist upon.

How to keep the wolves at bay, though?

Sheep dogs may definitely have a renewable energy future.

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[Ian David]

1. You're obviously a paid shill for big-sheep.

:sarcasm:

[OKIsItJustMe]

2. OK, you got me.

I confess. I'm a sheep in wolf’s clothing.

[formercia]

3. You might also see Sheep or Goats in munitions storage areas.

They keep the grass clipped where using a lawn mower would prove dangerous.

[Quasimodem]

4. Guess Who Just Signed On As Official Spokeperson for the Solar Energy Industry?

[Indenturedebtor]

5. MMmmm Lamb Chops... delicious and produces less GHG than other red meats

:yum:

[NNadir]

6. What's the "best practice" for wiping bird shit off the cells?

Let me guess, bird hunting...

[DCKit]

7. Just one small part of the avian take over of the world - destroy our ability to generate energy.

Any kind of energy generation is a target. Spill a little oil, and they'll be there sopping it up in no time, to keep it from being recovered. And remember when all those (suicide Terra-ist) Canada geese sacrificed themselves to clog up the pipes at TMI and caused a meltdown?

It's a conspiracy.

[NNadir]

8. Not to mention the time after various oil spills they deliberately wallowed in oil

to keep us from getting it back.

We however have had our revenge: http://green.autoblog.com/2008/08/17/biodiesel-from-turkey-company-changing-world-technologies-files/