200,000 acres for 5GW? That’s the same output as just one large nuclear power station. Don’t they need that land for crops and stuff? While it’s great it’s renewable it just doesn’t seem very land efficient. Maybe hydro can do better.
China has a lot of land that isn’t at all suitable for farming but extremely suitable for solar power. But yeah nuclear and hydro are great too and very much necessary.
200,000 acres for 5GW? That’s the same output as just one large nuclear power station. Don’t they need that land for crops and stuff? While it’s great it’s renewable it just doesn’t seem very land efficient. Maybe hydro can do better.
not mutually exclusive actually https://www.salon.com/2023/05/03/how-shading-crops-with-solar-panels-can-improve-farming-lower-costs-and-reduce-emissions_partner/
I had no idea that was a thing
China has a lot of land that isn’t at all suitable for farming but extremely suitable for solar power. But yeah nuclear and hydro are great too and very much necessary.