| ▲ | Flavius 4 days ago | |
We currently use vast amounts of land growing corn and other crops specifically for biodiesel. Solar panels produce over 100x more energy per hectare than corn ethanol, even in countries like Denmark with limited sunlight. It makes perfect sense to repurpose some biofuel farmland for solar panels. That's just efficient land use, not an attack on agriculture. | ||
| ▲ | dathinab 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
> corn and other crops specifically for biodiesel. honestly that always sounded very misguided to me fields are not perfectly renewable, biomas gets removed from them and fertilizers can only help so much in any given time frame mostly corn/raps mono-culture can make that easily far worse and not needing to import food can safe a lot of energy too also as you mentioned, modern solar panels seem overall more efficient in difference to solar or wind, biodiesel just seem a very bad choice | ||
| ▲ | PearlRiver 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Don't forget all the pesticides and fertilizer that they have been pumping into the ground for the last 100 years. Farms are industrial estates. | ||