Re:Solar and Batteries Make Up 81% of New US Electric-Genera...
by thinkcontext on Friday February 16, 2024 @08:22AM
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If you are concerned about solar's use of land then you must be positively apoplectic about using corn for ethanol. That uses more than 40% of US corn production, an amount of acreage so vast it's difficult to comprehend.
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Re:Solar and Batteries Make Up 81% of New US Electric-Genera...
by pfdietz on Friday February 16, 2024 @11:15AM
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Using PV with BEVs instead of ethanol in ICEs would be something like 200x more land efficient.
Re:Solar and Batteries Make Up 81% of New US Electric-Genera...
by toomuchtodo on Sunday February 18, 2024 @10:34PM
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~40 million acres.
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/03/10/solarfood-in-ethanol-...