The US currently uses over 30 million acres of farmland to grow corn for 15 billion gallons of ethanol, which the fuel industry is legally required to buy, which offsets about 10% of our gasoline consumption. This is an area the size of the state of New York.
That much land, covered with solar panels, would produce about THREE TIMES America’s annual electricity consumption.
Corn grown for ethanol fuel requires 31 TIMES as much land as solar per unit of energy.
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The best way to support solar is to have solar panels over every parking lot in the US. Rather than on the thousands of acres (especially here in rural areas) where solar panels now are being built. There is a huge push back to have them over parking lots. The VA hospital in Gainesville has them there. Helps keeps the parking lot cooler, and they supply power. It's been there for at least a decade.
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