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[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 99 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Conservatively, using the land currently used for fuel ethanol production in the USA for solar instead would add more generating capacity than the entire capacity of the USA today. It’s a terrible use of land, not to mention energy and chemical inputs.

[-] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 day ago

I'm sure that something can still be grown in the shade of the solar panels, shade houses are a thing after all.

[-] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

I read an article somewhere about how solar panels can (and are by some countries) keep the ground below cool enough to grow plants and crops and such when the climate is otherwise not suitable to do so. Quite interesting indeed!

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