>It's not a fiction that a large scale solar or wind farm will occupy more land
This argument still baffles me - when we are talking about the US, things requiring a bit more space is laughable. There's SO MUCH UNUSED SPACE that no one cares about, there's offshore space and dual use space no one gives a damn about how is this even an argument.
If it'd be orders of magnitude yea that'd be a problem but a few percent? Please.
> This argument still baffles me - when we are talking about the US, things requiring a bit more space is laughable.
There tend to be fairly good reasons for why so much land is seemingly unused. You also can't just build a wind or solar plant anywhere, there's areas where either the construction is not feasible, far too expensive, or is too remote. Or just not usable for that type of power generation. You also need access to the labour to build and maintain the facility, and that's going to be harder if you're too far from a population center.
This argument still baffles me - when we are talking about the US, things requiring a bit more space is laughable. There's SO MUCH UNUSED SPACE that no one cares about, there's offshore space and dual use space no one gives a damn about how is this even an argument. If it'd be orders of magnitude yea that'd be a problem but a few percent? Please.