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Japanese Company to Generate Needed Electricity by Turning Unused Rice Paddies to Solar FarmsSoftbank Corporation President Masayoshi Son is rolling out a plan to turn Japan's 1.3 million acres of unused rice paddies into solar farms. Energy issues in Japan have been under heightened scrutiny since the March 11th earthquake, tidal wave and resulting Fukushima nuclear disaster, and particular attention has been paid to Japan's slow adoption of renewable energy technology. Son has decided to tackle this problem head on and has done the math - turning just 20% of Japan's unused rice paddies into solar farms would replace all 50 million kilowatts of energy generated by the Tokyo Electric Power Company.1
Japanese Company to Generate Needed Electricity by Turning Unused Rice Paddies to Solar FarmsSoftbank Corporation President Masayoshi Son is rolling out a plan to turn Japan's 1.3 million acres of unused rice paddies into solar farms. Energy issues in Japan have been under heightened scrutiny since the March 11th earthquake, tidal wave and resulting Fukushima nuclear disaster, and particular attention has been paid to Japan's slow adoption of renewable energy technology. Son has decided to tackle this problem head on and has done the math - turning just 20% of Japan's unused rice paddies into solar farms would replace all 50 million kilowatts of energy generated by the Tokyo Electric Power Company.2
Japanese Company to Generate Needed Electricity by Turning Unused Rice Paddies to Solar FarmsSoftbank Corporation President Masayoshi Son is rolling out a plan to turn Japan's 1.3 million acres of unused rice paddies into solar farms. Energy issues in Japan have been under heightened scrutiny since the March 11th earthquake, tidal wave and resulting Fukushima nuclear disaster, and particular attention has been paid to Japan's slow adoption of renewable energy technology. Son has decided to tackle this problem head on and has done the math - turning just 20% of Japan's unused rice paddies into solar farms would replace all 50 million kilowatts of energy generated by the Tokyo Electric Power Company.3
