Just kind of makes sense no?

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The amount of area needed for solar does not even begin to approach the amount of farm land. People generally aren’t building solar panels on farmland anyways? The largest instillations in the US are in the middle of the fucking desert.

Also get rid of as many parking lots as possible.

There is just so many layers of false and absurd narrative in this.

Not much desert around me. Good farmland is getting leveled and solar put on top when there are parking lots already flat they could do it on. It's just much, much easier to work with fresh ground. It's why old warehouses are left to rot and farmland right next to them are razed for new warehouses.

I put some solar on my farm, but made sure to use a plot that isn't suitable for farming.

You haven't seen much of the US from ground level have you. There are more and more panel farms being built on good farm land. Sizes ranging from 10 to 40 acres at a time from all the ones I've seen.

It might seem small to you, but it does add up.

In Germany they sometimes put solar on the south side of historic trash hills. Seems like a good idea I can't think of downsides.

People generally aren’t building solar panels on farmland anyways?

At least here in Germany they do

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