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  • It’s not that the scale of greenhouse farming is enormous in Europe. To my knowledge, it’s mostly the Netherlands, and also “niche” crops (compared to the big ones like wheat and corn). Also my guess would be that the structures are more complicated to integrate with PV since greenhouse covers can be switched open/shut.

    Europe also mostly has open farming and also usually grows crops that used to be fine with being in the sun all day. The issue is that the summers getting hotter and hotter with the climate change and they are struggling and need a lot of additional watering - or some kind of shade they didn’t need before. I’d assume that’s the same in NA.

    The main difference I see between Europe and NA is how densely packed Europe is. Every square cm of land is already used for something, what’s left of natural habitats has to be protected. There’s real competition for space. Land is way more available in NA if I’m not mistaken.


  • Oh that’s great, thanks! It’s s bit disheartening to see how many fields are covered in PV without doing agri-pv, effectively competing with farming, at least in my area. It seems like agri pv is a purely academic thing for now, at least I haven’t ever read about productive usage. My best guess, aside from steep investment costs, would be that the laws are different for farming and pv (I’m in Germany).














  • Ideally, you have at least two systems, test updates in the dev system and only then allow it in prod. So no auto merge in prod in this case or somehow have it check if dev worked.

    Seeing which services are usually fine to update without intervening and tuning your renovate config to it should be sufficient for homelab imho.

    Given that most people are running :latest and just yolo the updates with watchtower or not automated at all, some granular control with renovate is already a big improvement.