Sure but compare that to the amount of land used for oil and gas extraction. The difference is that mines and drills can only go where there's stuff to extract and solar panels can go anywhere. Including near residential areas. That's also due to the fact that they are so environmentally neutral.

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baby_souffle an hour ago | parent [-]

And you can do some agriculture near and under the panels. That's not the case with an oil well.

	▲	enoint 14 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Or under the plume of heavy metals from coal. That land, near the transmission infrastructure of a coal plant, is only good for solar farms.