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Word of the Day: Solar farm
What would you say if I were to tell you that the above picture is a photovoltaic power station?
Yeah, that’s what I thought.
It’s much easier to say solar farm because it’s not such a mouthful of words as photovoltaic power station.
A solar farm turns rays from the sun into electricity that society can use.
These ‘farms’ have sprung up all over Japan, especially in the countryside, where farmland is no longer used for farming.
I’m not entirely sure, but I suppose it is easier to operate a solar farm than a rice or vegetable farm.
I guess if we think about it for a moment, it makes sense to call it a place that turns energy from the sun into electricity: a farm.
On a vegetable farm, people turn nutrients in the ground into things to eat.
On a solar farm, people turn rays from the sun into electricity that society can use.
They give new meaning to the expression make hay while the sun shines.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 7th-grade education (age 12).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 71.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.