{"id":130687,"date":"2021-11-16T08:43:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T16:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/could-solar-gardens-boost-traditional-farming-with-renewable-energy"},"modified":"2021-11-16T08:43:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T16:43:20","slug":"could-solar-gardens-boost-traditional-farming-with-renewable-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/could-solar-gardens-boost-traditional-farming-with-renewable-energy","title":{"rendered":"Could Solar Gardens Boost Traditional Farming with Renewable Energy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/could-solar-gardens-boost-traditional-farming-with-renewable-energy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This solar farm in Colorado thinks so.<\/p>\n<p>The farming industry is using way too much energy both for its own and the Earth\u2019s sake. To put it in numbers, agriculture uses approximately 21 percent of food production energy, which equals 2.2 quadrillions of kilojoules of energy each year. What\u2019s more, about 60 percent of the energy used in agriculture goes toward gasoline, diesel, electricity, and natural gas.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s where agrivoltaics come in. A system where solar panels are in\u2026 See more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This solar farm in Colorado thinks so. The farming industry is using way too much energy both for its own and the Earth\u2019s sake. To put it in numbers, agriculture uses approximately 21 percent of food production energy, which equals 2.2 quadrillions of kilojoules of energy each year. What\u2019s more, about 60 percent of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}