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Re:Giant batteries and cheap solar power are shoving fossil ... by beat on Friday July 12, 2019 @05:26PM (#20424669)
Wind farms, maybe. I'm not seeing a lot of utility-scale solar (yet) around here. I'm in MN and travel to IA regularly, past the enormous wind farms. A wind farm has negligible impact on farmland use.
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Re:Giant batteries and cheap solar power are shoving fossil ... by mattferderer on Friday July 12, 2019 @06:28PM (#20425089)
MN has been a big proponent & has several. IL just passed a energy jobs act & looks to have a few being built. ND is about to build their first one to supply electricity to MN I believe.

There are studies on mix use farmland & solar. Some crops work well. Also in some scenarios it seems as if solar farms are becoming more profitable than crops.

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