‘We’re Farming Sun’: Pioneering Pennsylvania Farmer Ditched Corn Rows for Solar Panels

[@lghammer778]

That's awesome! I wanna start a Solar Farm & this video greatly captures the potential of Solar & renewable energy in general, cheers!

[@METALMAN4Wii]

Become no matter how bad the economy gets 99% of people need electricity!

[@kkknotcool]

I wouldn't say no matter how bad. If it's rent or electricity you pay rent, If it's food or electricity you pay food.

[@METALMAN4Wii]

@@kkknotcool True but some Americans with rather have AC in the summer than buy grandpa's heart medicine.

[@kkknotcool]

@@METALMAN4Wii As unnecessary expenses go AC in the dead of summer is one the best luxury bang for the buck.

[@ericklein5097]

Except now a lot of people are now learning they can get off the grid with their own small solar array. A day may come where utility companies have to fight over the few customers left that need to buy their energy off them. It doesn’t take much more than two decent sized solar arrays covering a quarter of an acre to generate enough solar to power a house and fill enough battery storage. As LiFeP04 comes down in price we might see the average American able to afford enough backup battery power to last them 3-7 days costing less than $1,000. Currently we are at $150 per kwh with 20-30kwh enough to cover a house for a day. More efficient heating and cooling would drastically reduce that number below 10kwh.

[@CH67guy1]

And people need funeral homes and hair dressers just the same!

[@MrLalasd]

But pa voted for clean coal lol.

[@daddio7249]

Utility rates there must be very high. My power bill is less then $2000 a year. I installed a 11,000 watt system that will replace most of my usage and it cost $20,000 with me doing all the work and using a low cost wood ground mount. A stout metal mount like is used there would cost $10,000 more. Then there is the union labor used. Their cost per watt installed is double what I paid not counting the land lease, I guess that is why only a municipality could afford the power.

[@biofriendlyplanet]

So great! Love it.

[@userhandle3378]

Mans a genius, how many times a day you gotta water a solar panel?

[@Zero11_ss]

I looked it up online and its something like only 4 times a year of maintenance needed. And of course mowing the grass down every once in a while.

[@steveallen3434]

@@Zero11_ss no need to mow just put livestock on it

[@wisdomofthewildempathsview581]

I want to get into this

[@kadioglumelih]

So do I. Let's discuss collaboration ?

[@wisdomofthewildempathsview581]

@@kadioglumelih lol right

[@kadioglumelih]

@@wisdomofthewildempathsview581 It is either this or the Nigerian princes bro. Your choice lol

[@lilllwizzzle]

You want to own a solar farm or lease your land out?

[@wisdomofthewildempathsview581]

@@lilllwizzzle I'd do eather the electric company that's here charges way to much I've even considered buying a generator to power my house because I could fuel it for about a third of the cost

[@atnstn]

I don't believe this dude for a moment! A farmer giving up on farming is a short-term thinking. This guy sold his soul. Who's to say that they won't renegotiate his contract in a year paying him 20% Of original contract ?!? What guarantees does he have? Someone has to work and feed the population. Hard work pays off. ALWAYS.

[@Stan_Castan]

Chill down

[@ronaldlindeman6136]

Farmland is 40 percent of all land in the United States. 2.2 billion total acres and 900 million acres of farmland. If all the electricity that the United States uses came from Photovoltaic PV, solar power, that would take about 14 million acres. 900 million for farmland is still a lot more than 14 million acres. Then lots of PV, solar power is from PV's on top of building roofs. Then a person can always run sheep where those PV's are, or other crops between the PV's. Not going to run out of farmland.

[@jonathan248]

Lol. This one farmer making a business decision based on his own situation about his private land isn't the end of the world. I guess you've never heard the phrase "work smarter, not harder" before.

[@tbs74831]

Can't eat solar panels

[@honesty_-no9he]

Why is that vehicle running on gasoline ?

[@namenotfound8747]

Probably had it from his corn field days.

[@edieseltzer4896]

Batteries?

[@HansKeesom]

1:38 strange 3 dimensional effect as if the field is flying......

[@agritech802]

Well done folks, it's a great idea and a great cause 👍

[@pillbertdidit]

Everybody and anybody born on this planet should never have to pay for water or power that comes for our free 🌞. Everybody's always trying to come up off of somebody else instead of helping one another.

[@real_juice4209]

How is the energy from the sun free? Have you looked into how much it cost to start a solar set up? Not talking 💩 just that I have and that shit ain’t cheap especially if ya wanna go off grid. But even if it’s on grid someone’s gotta maintenance the grid 🤷‍♂️. We don’t pay the utility companies they can’t pay the workers aka we have no power or water.

[@jonathan248]

If it comes out for free from the sun, why do you need to get it from anyone? Why not just get it from the sun yourself?

[@er98ah]

Why does everyone on thus episode look shady

[@butchblanchard5158]

Can't wait too have a power bill as high as California and sit in the dark.

[@kevincoons724]

We lose over 2000 acres of farm ground each day to urban, solar and wind development. We need to use our common sense on placement of these industrial solar facilities and stop using the land that makes our food. Get it developed in deserts and desolate land. We are creating a new issue here and it’s hiding behind green energy, but like all greed, it’s money driven. Farm land is cheaper to develop. By 2050 farmers will need to produce 70% more worldwide to sustain the 2.2 billion more people that will be added to the population, per Farm Bureau. We need to educate ourselves better.

[@Jdjsksjdhdj]

if it just adds power to the grid why does someone need to buy it cant the power company just pay them for production then they collect money from...

[@davidgillman5368]

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[@antonshkabara3090]

I bought instruction from Avasva and I build it very very cheap.

[@XxBloodSteamxX]

Lol your land isn't getting much more fertile when you cut the grass that low

[@younggotjuicebihhh9617]

This was a good idea but where we gone get our corn from

[@younggotjuicebihhh9617]

We can’t eat energy

[@atlscott744]

younggotjuice bihhh, exactly. The size of these solar farms is growing at an insane rate. One of a minimum of 2,000 acres is proposed to take over a small farming community in Mississippi. Solar companies are scrambling to bios them before their federal tax credits go down to 10%.

[@kenrehill8775]

Eat less, live longer

[@joeljong931]

The video shows a wide spread, some solar farms graze sheep which act as natural lawn mowers and you could add chicken tractors as an innovative idea.

[@greggergen9104]

I would bet that he would not be farming solar panels if the government did not subsidize those solar panels.

[@FourthWayRanch]

LOL, there is no money in selling solar power, a solar farm is only useful if you are going to use the power on site for something else.

[@hickory588]

🤦🏻‍♀️ looks like an environmental catastrophe!!

[@stanleybowman-hood6194]

It’s good till well you know Try to build one round my fucking house

[@stanleybowman-hood6194]

Btw I love clean energy there’s just so many better places to build it