'Solar sharing' spreading among Fukushima farmers

[jpak]

http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0000335931

Farmers in Fukushima Prefecture are turning to “solar sharing,” a process in which they can generate solar power on the same land where they grow crops and sell the power to utilities.

The farmers are hoping to sell the power to help cover the losses they are suffering because of the nuclear crisis at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

To help farmers recover from the effects of the nuclear disaster, solar panels are set on poles erected on the farmland.

Farmers can use the money from sales of the generated electric power to improve their farmland or to cover losses in income caused by radiation fears.

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[byronius]

1. Here's dreaming of the rise of Grand Solar.

Someone will probably figure out a way to make that sort of a bad thing, but at least poor engineering won't kill every living thing on earth.