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Besides we can still use that same land for crops with agrivoltaics
They're right, in the sense of square acres.
Get ready for a rant.
Except it doesn't work that way and it isn't that simple, the article pokes a big hole in its own argument in the second sentence, the world, it's spread out across the world. The crop land used for biofuel is hundreds or thousands of miles way from where the electricity would need to get to. The farmers would have nothing to farm and they would have to give up or lease their land to electric companies or the government. The entire infrastructure for utilities and farming would need to be torn down and rebuilt, it wouldn't be practical for at least 2 generations once construction started, in that time we could be using a completely different form of fuel making solar obsolete.
The problem isn't where to put panels but how to get electricity to the electric cars that are thousands of miles away from the farms and the farms are many miles from each other. Plus biofuels will never go away and we'll need significant quantities for at least another hundred years.
Use old landfills or old quarries or building rooftops, they're a lot closer to the cities. Why not use the windows of the buildings for ~~thermal energy~~ transparent solar. Why not use the energy from our heating and cooling and plumbing systems to generate electricity. Plus we can do them all at the same time, it doesn't have to be one or the other, put a windmill and solar panels and thermal on the same rooftop. Put steam turbines everywhere.
Why? Because basic engineering will tell you that small areas of low quality waste heat isn't something you turn into usable energy.
That's the one sentence out of thay post I didn't agree with a well.
It's almost as if @kboos1@lemmy.world doesn't know what the fuck they are talking about and is saying complete nonsense.
Bah hahaha you got me there.... didn't you
Damn, twin. That's a great rebuke you got there.