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this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2026
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Just cover all fields used to grow biofuel crops with solar panels, it's an insane number used for biofuels - like enough to power the whole US twice over if they were all covered in solar.
Its is nearly always a transmission bottlenecks that hinders these. How to get all tbat power out of rural areas.
Repurpose combines to drive over the solar panels and harvest the energy. Then pile it up in giant piles near rail roads. From there train it to depots for distribution. Infrastructure is already there!
This guy solar farms!
What if - now hear me out - we built more power lines?
Yeah absolutely, no one is saying that isnt an option. But when you capture the production as a single build or consideration simply needing the effort you dont account for the costs of infrastructure to hundreds and thousands of sites and quickly you will see that a lot of these sites are not going to produce enough for it to be a viable option.
There is load of oil in the ground that we dont take out because it isnt a good investment. This is the same.
Yes, i'll mention him (and another trigger after the ~1h mark warning for dipshits).