Relevant Technology Connections video. Tl:DW: a good third of the corn grown in the US is for making ethanol to put in cars, a very inefficient use of land. If that land was instead solar, we could cover all of the energy needs from transportation and electricity in the country multiple times over. Plus agrivoltaics shows some crops actually grow better underneath solar panels.
We should be putting panels everywhere that makes sense and as fast as possible
This is anti-renewables propaganda, and it’s fucking everywhere now. We need as much as solar as fast as possible, and utility-scale ground mount is the cheapest way to do it. Carport solar is good and necessary, but way more expensive, because the panels are no longer the most expensive part of construction.
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cymbal_king@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 111d
Relevant Technology Connections video. Tl:DW: a good third of the corn grown in the US is for making ethanol to put in cars, a very inefficient use of land. If that land was instead solar, we could cover all of the energy needs from transportation and electricity in the country multiple times over. Plus agrivoltaics shows some crops actually grow better underneath solar panels.
We should be putting panels everywhere that makes sense and as fast as possible
bizarroland@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 111d
I'm okay with both.
It's not like they're cutting down forests to put in solar panels.
lovingisliving@anarchist.nexus · 18 pts · 111d
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 2 pts · 111d
Fields are natural habitat, and it has an effect on the local environment.
Let's cover the heat islands first - we have plenty of them.
frisbird@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 111d
Approximately 300 times more fields than parking lots, and that's only counting agriculture land. There's probably substantially more than 300x.
compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 111d
This is anti-renewables propaganda, and it’s fucking everywhere now. We need as much as solar as fast as possible, and utility-scale ground mount is the cheapest way to do it. Carport solar is good and necessary, but way more expensive, because the panels are no longer the most expensive part of construction.
lovingisliving@anarchist.nexus · 7 pts · 111d
JoeyHarrington@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 111d
Just let the snow on the solar panels deal with itself. There's zero need to remove it.
lovingisliving@anarchist.nexus · 2 pts · 111d
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 111d
This sounds like solar roadways all over again.
lovingisliving@anarchist.nexus · 1 pts · 111d