A new PNAS study says converting a small share of U.S. corn-ethanol farmland to solar could generate the same energy with far less land use, fertilizer, and irrigation. The researchers estimate solar would need only a tiny fraction of the acreage now devoted to corn for fuel, and that even modest conversion could significantly raise solar’s share of the U.S. energy mix. [anthropocenemagazine.org]
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