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We often associate giant solar arrays with deserts, but the extreme heat can curb solar panels potential.

It's like your laptop or your home computer. If it overheats, it slows down.

So there's this trade-off between having a lot, a lot of sun,

like in a desert, but if it gets too hot, the efficiency of those panels drops.

Oregon State University ecological engineer Chad Higgins. His team is interested in where

photovoltaic panels should be located in order to maximize energy production. In addition to moderate

temperatures and sunlight, they found that conditions for the most efficiency include low relative

humidity and gentle winds that enhance transfer of heat from the panels. By analyzing satellite data

for these four factors, they created a map of potential solar panel productivity for different land types around the globe.

Coming out on top, agricultural croplands.

And you think about it for a minute, and it kind of makes sense.

What is agriculture but taking the sun's rays and converting it into a form of energy that we consume.

So there's this sweet spot where you get a lot of sun, but it's a temperate temperature,

and that is where you get the maximum productivity.

And that's also where plants thrive.

Other factors also favor cropland solar. Agricultural lands tend to be closer to

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