I’m fine with having them on fields. If they can be placed in car parks too, then cool.
They are a hell of a lot more environmentally friendly to have on fields than crops anyways.
And no, I’m not arguing that there should be no crop fields. Just that no one will get hurt if we have less of them. Besides, it’s not gonna take that much collected space to generate enough solar/wind power to sustain a country. In my country we could technically already be completely self-sustaining with solar and windmill energy if it wasn’t for the fact that Germany pays us to turn off our windmills from time to time because we produce too much energy and therefore drive down energy prices.
The el-net is also not yet built to store the amount of energy we can generate so it’s a nice problem to have and something that will be solved over time when we find ways to store this type of energy better.
I’m fine with having them on fields. If they can be placed in car parks too, then cool.
They are a hell of a lot more environmentally friendly to have on fields than crops anyways.
And no, I’m not arguing that there should be no crop fields. Just that no one will get hurt if we have less of them. Besides, it’s not gonna take that much collected space to generate enough solar/wind power to sustain a country. In my country we could technically already be completely self-sustaining with solar and windmill energy if it wasn’t for the fact that Germany pays us to turn off our windmills from time to time because we produce too much energy and therefore drive down energy prices.
The el-net is also not yet built to store the amount of energy we can generate so it’s a nice problem to have and something that will be solved over time when we find ways to store this type of energy better.
Technology Connections agrees (trigger warning for dipshits after the ~1h mark).