Animals Are Imposed on Machines: Thousands of Sheep Replace Lawn Mowers in Solar Plants
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In Texas, the United States, thousands of sheep are responsible for the control of vegetation in solar power plants that extend over approximately 27,500 hectares. According to information published by the Turkish daily Sözcü, which collects data from Scienceblog.com, the presence of these animals makes it possible to reduce the use of machinery and to keep areas that are most difficult to access between the panels. The growth of vegetation arou…
Texas ranchers now run sheep across roughly 68,000 acres of solar farms, more than half the American solar-grazing map, because goats climb the panels and chew the wires and cattle are simply too tall for the rows
Drive through Milam County, Texas, past the endless glinting rows of one of the biggest solar projects in America, and look under the panels. Down in the shade, working steadily through the grass, are sheep. Thousands of them. They are not decoration. They are the maintenance crew, and across Texas they have become a booming industry of their own, built on a simple piece of livestock arithmetic: of all the animals a rancher might turn loose on a…
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