Farmers are making bank harvesting a new crop: Solar energy

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1. >~45% of US corn production is now used to make ethanol, mostly for mixing into gasoline.

   >That’s ~13% of all US crop land already used for energy production.

   >Using some of the same land for solar panels would capture 50-100 times more energy per acre.

   >The US already devotes more than 40 million acres to growing corn for ethanol fuel production.

   >If only ~1/3 of that land were converted to solar PV, it could generate enough electricity to cover the entire country’s electricity needs.

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2. Paywalled.

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