According to analysis by the Carbon Tracker Initiative, “the land required for solar panels alone to provide all global energy is … less than the current land footprint of fossil fuel infrastructure”.
I don’t love the effect of solar (panel) farms on local ecology, since they take up so much space. But anything is better than fossil fuels since they give off the gas that kills everything.
photovoltaics are nice but Solar thermal farms and solar updraft towers really tickle my brain.
Hell you don’t even have to pick and choose. You can do both in the same stretch of land. Solar is well positioned to make good use of land even before animal agriculture dies off.
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I don’t love the effect of solar (panel) farms on local ecology, since they take up so much space. But anything is better than fossil fuels since they give off the gas that kills everything.photovoltaics are nice but Solar thermal farms and solar updraft towers really tickle my brain.
Every human activity has an impact and solar has got to be among the best things we have in that regard
just replace pasture with solar ez win. far less destructive than cattle
Hell you don’t even have to pick and choose. You can do both in the same stretch of land. Solar is well positioned to make good use of land even before animal agriculture dies off.
I mean one big benefit of solar panels is you can put them on top of existing infrastructure.
That’s what kills me about these huge expanses of surface parking lots in FL. Some much solar potential