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Jym
@jymfox.com

GOOD NEWS MORE SOLAR FARMS MORE FOXES

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Jasper 'Lope
@jasperlope.bsky.social

In my experience, rodents tend to eat wiring, but foxes tend to eat rodents. So it's actually probably really beneficial to have the foxes around, in terms of uptime (Also this is a perfect addition to my scifi setting where advanced aliens treat humans the way humans are treating the foxes here)

kishniev.bsky.social
@kishniev.bsky.social

See, this is biology and technology working together. 15,000 BC: agriculture invented, cats worshiped as food storage preservers. 2,000 AD: solar panels invented, foxes worshipped as cooper cable preserves.

Catherine Berry
@isomeme.bsky.social

I think our next challenge as a species is to erase the artificial distinction between biology and technology. It's all just fancy arrangements of matter and energy that can fancily rearrange other matter and energy.

Peldrigal
@peldrigal.bsky.social

In the abstract all outcomes are better at the solar sites, but are remarked as identical. Is the difference not statiatically significative because of the small sample?

byzantine27.bsky.social
@byzantine27.bsky.social

Pretty much. They say "identical" because the % difference is usually 1-2 individuals/events, which is small enough to not be considered significant. Not without decades of 1-2 individual variance consistently favoring one site.

Graham M.
@graham-m.bsky.social

Useful link, thanks. The abstract is very helpful: "Few differences were found between solar and reference sites, and the differences that were found were attributable to differences in habitat condition due to land uses just prior to construction of the solar facilities."

Chrome Guardsman
@chromeguardsman.bsky.social

pretty much every news article i see about the installation of solar farms seems to go like this. so long as they're not installed on some massive concrete slab, they seem to encourage growth of local ecosystems within their bounds.

Isaac Rabinovitch
@isaac32767.picknit.com

This is a cool story, but that tag is seriously oversimplified. The solar farm turned out be a good refuge for the endangered San Joaquin kit fox, but the circumstances are a bit specific to the one site. www.ecoportal.net/en/a-foxes-m...

ecoportal.netA 5 pound fox slipped into two California solar farms after losing almost 95 percent of its wild home, and the fence built to guard the panels ended up locking out the coyotes that hunt itA research event detailed by the Santa Barbara Bren School of Environmental Science & Management found foxes are using solar farms as natural habitats.