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this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2026
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Cover the corn fields that are 95% being used to produce ethanol for fuel mixture into gasoline. Replace a one-time-use fuel that takes a ton of water to produce, contributes to pesticide usage, and requires a bunch more energy for processing (and makes your car run less efficiently anyway) with energy that can power homes, vehicles, industry, etc. starting now and lasting for decades with a one time investment into fully recyclable materials that is already pretty low cost and lowering all the time.
It's actually only 25% to 45%, that is turned into ethanol, depending on the source. Most of the rest of the corn is animal feed. You are correct that humans only eat about 5% of the corn we grow.
Fair, but that's still plenty of land for massive amounts of solar without losing much at all
Oh, absolutely. I wasn't disagreeing, in fact I'm working with my brother to try and get him a loan to buy a corn farm that he would convert into a solar farm.
Subscribe! That would be quite interesting to follow along in future updates, if you don't mind sharing
And livestock can eat under the solar panels, so even less corn lost.
Also reduces fertilizer use, that comes from natural gas extraction.
Fuck it let's go all the way. Replace the cars entirely