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A tweet by some news company saying “Your bowl of rice is hurting the climate too.” It has a link to an article and a picture of a bowl of rice. It has a quote saying “Should I just die”

  • rtxn@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    people claim there isn’t enough land for solar panels

    Oh, I have another bone to pick with those people. I know a perfect place for solar panels. Take this satellite photo of a completely random part of Kansas:

    The circular irrigation system leaves the corners unused. That’s 21% of the square’s area, wasted.

    (edit) I’m not a civil engineer, and I know that putting solar panels and supporting infrastructure so close to a water spray has its own problems, but that is still way too large an area over all of the arable land in North America to just leave unused.

    • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
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      The circular irrigation system leaves the corners unused. That’s 21% of the square’s area, wasted.

      In places that are densely farmed like this, those corner areas are not necessarily wasted. They are the only places that are not monocultures.

    • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      And even if they can’t have solar, they can probably have windmills. We need a combination of the two.