Besides we can still use that same land for crops with agrivoltaics

  • SippyCup@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Oh yeah, it’s inefficient as hell. But energy from the sun is coming to us whether we harvest it or not. It’s unlimited. The limitation is solar cells.

    We’re at the point where we’ve basically run out of easy oil to access, and we’re coming up with bigger and deeper drilling methods. We spend billions on a single offshore rig that will function for 10-20 years at most.

    The issue isn’t efficiency, it’s profit motive.