The day the world's population hit 8 billion was November 15, 2022. The UN estimate portrays exceptional rise as a result of the progressive increase in human lifetime brought about by advancements in public health, nutrition, personal cleanliness, and medicine. The rising need for both food and energy are a direct result, and it has resulted in previously unheard-of standards of productivity even inside our boundaries. Conventional agrivoltaic, using opaque silicon solar panels, usually results in reduced agricultural output since it causes crops to grow mostly in the shadow. The greatest difficulty is to increase agricultural output while limiting transpiration losses to minimize irrigation demands and optimize solar power generation; this involves a paradigm change in how we manage our resources, particularly light. This is the conclusion drawn from an article by Matteo Camporese of the University of Padua's Department of Civil, Building, and Environmental Engineering (ICEA) titled "Not All Light Spectra Were Created Equal: Can We Harvest Light for Optimum Food-Energy Co-Generation?" This article appeared in the journal "Earth's Future" of the American Geophysical Union, a non-profit organization of scientists and enthusiasts of Earth, atmosphere, oceans, hydrology, space and planets.
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