Land occupation is just slightly higher than gas and as discussed, way lower than biofuels. Plus the dual use potential with agrivoltaics.

What other footprints would you like to discuss- mining, air pollution, water use, even waste heat production all go down versus status quo.

March 26, 2026 - 19:53 UTC

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If we are more concerned about land use and let's say copper constraints, I'd be happy to have more nuclear and geothermal as well. But fossils and biofuels are scourges to be vigorously uprooted.
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I just noticed that the Indiana Department of Natural Resources received $300,000 to inventory their abandoned coal mine acreage, but didn't find the results of their investigation.

I just saw that they're installing 75MW of solar on an abandoned P mine in Florida because of Biden's IIJA.
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Lovering et al (2022) has the full footprint of gas (NG+) virtually identical to the footprint of ground mount PV and the physical footprint of gas plants (MG-) worse than the physical footprint of wind farms (Wind-)
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9258890/
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