GrumpySilverback on Mythryl: “I live in the mid-west corn land of southern IL. Land sits ununsed…”

@grumpysilverback.bsky.social

I live in the mid-west corn land of southern IL. Land sits ununsed most of the year, between October and May. No cover crops, no winter wheat. Nada. Just cropped off corn stalks.

Robert Rohde@rarohde.bsky.social

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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