{"id":244840,"date":"2026-10-02T21:05:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T02:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/finally-rose-tinted-solar-panels-could-let-crops-and-electricity-share-the-same-land"},"modified":"2026-10-02T21:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T02:05:06","slug":"finally-rose-tinted-solar-panels-could-let-crops-and-electricity-share-the-same-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/finally-rose-tinted-solar-panels-could-let-crops-and-electricity-share-the-same-land","title":{"rendered":"Finally: Rose-Tinted Solar Panels Could Let Crops And Electricity Share The Same Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/finally-rose-tinted-solar-panels-could-let-crops-and-electricity-share-the-same-land.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plants are the original solar panels, and they\u2019re very good at converting light into energy \u2013 red and blue light, that is.<\/p>\n<p>But what if a solar panel could co-exist with plants, capturing the light that they aren\u2019t using while allowing those red and blue wavelengths through?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what a team led by Silvia Ma Lu of M\u00e4lardalen University in Sweden has tested in a new study, using semi-transparent, rose-tinted solar panels that let specific wavelengths of light through to plants growing below, while also capturing solar energy for electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plants are the original solar panels, and they\u2019re very good at converting light into energy \u2013 red and blue light, that is. But what if a solar panel could co-exist with plants, capturing the light that they aren\u2019t using while allowing those red and blue wavelengths through? That\u2019s what a team led by Silvia Ma [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244840","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\/244840","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}