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[โ€“] 50 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (7 children)

Cover the corn fields that are 95% being used to produce ethanol for fuel mixture into gasoline. Replace a one-time-use fuel that takes a ton of water to produce, contributes to pesticide usage, and requires a bunch more energy for processing (and makes your car run less efficiently anyway) with energy that can power homes, vehicles, industry, etc. starting now and lasting for decades with a one time investment into fully recyclable materials that is already pretty low cost and lowering all the time.

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  • [โ€“] 12 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

    It's actually only 25% to 45%, that is turned into ethanol, depending on the source. Most of the rest of the corn is animal feed. You are correct that humans only eat about 5% of the corn we grow.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Fair, but that's still plenty of land for massive amounts of solar without losing much at all

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