Global Solar Power Investment Will Top $1B per Day This Year

Re:Global Solar Power Investment Will Top $1B per Day This Year by kbar13 on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @02:54PM (#36231685)

there are always environmental impacts to land when we deprive it of sunlight, which is why picking the low hanging fruit of covering man-made structures with panels would be preferable over large fields

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Re:Global Solar Power Investment Will Top $1B per Day This Year by pfdietz on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @03:28PM (#36232183)

Since there are environmental impacts of land use, it seems we should maximize the return from each unit of land, to minimize the impact per unit of benefit.

Now, compare the value returned by an acre growing feed grain, to an acre collecting solar energy via PV. The latter has enormously higher return.

The argument you are making is not an argument against freestanding PV, it's an argument against agriculture. And yet, it is selectively applied to PV.

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Re:Global Solar Power Investment Will Top $1B per Day This Year by CyberDildonics on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @02:56PM (#36231710)

Trees deprive land of sunlight, that seems to work out fine. Do you have any actual information or data?

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