Putting solar panels on land used for biofuels would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks to go electric
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The world dedicates a Poland-sized area of land to liquid biofuels. Is there a more efficient way to generate energy?

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

  • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    28 days ago

    I don’t know about that, but we certainly need to waste less food, and removing the profit motive from it’s production might help getting it to the people that need it but can’t get it. There are still people in the world starving needlessly.

    • SippyCup@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      28 days ago

      We both grow more than we need, and throw more than we should away.

      Some of that is a result of picky shoppers wanting unblemished produce. Some of that is a result of not having an easy profit motivated way of getting produce from where it’s grown to where it’s most desperately needed.

      We have tropical fruit available all year, but when impoverished peoples experience a crop failure, best we can do is send powdered milk.

      Which incidentally may have cured them of lactose intolerance.