Look man, why haven't you done the math? It's your argument after all. Anyway, a very optimistic calculations means you need the flat area of at least 800 m^2 in a sunny climate, to charge a single electric truck to full power. Plus you need a battery bank to store it during the day, supposing you're charging at night.

So, now you do the math how many trucks and how much area for solar panels a typical military has.

I don't need to do any calculations for combustion engines: IT'S WHAT THE MILITARY IS USING RIGHT NOW TODAY!

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thelastgallon 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Just for the Ethanol acres. 30 million acres for a small fraction of fuel. Instead use the same acres for solar panels.

Annual Electricity Generated is 26,300 TWh/year.

Over 6× total U.S. annual electricity consumption (~4,100 TWh/year). This is enough to electrify everything in US.

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wallst07 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Solar panels don't feed a nation, giving up fertile land for panels is a bad idea. Put them where you can't grow anything.

The ethanol argument is a dying cause.

	▲	thelastgallon 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You consume ethanol as food? Ethanol is supposed to go into gas cars, via the fossil fuel supply chain.
	▲	pixl97 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Eh. Just stop feeding your crops to cows and you need a lot less space to grow stuff. Also you can put the panels on marginal lands first and save a lot of actual good land for grains and vegetables.
	▲	youngtaff 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It’s not an either / or… animals such as sheep can coexist with solar panels and yields go up