> For example, let's say that a country had to displace 40% of its productive arable land in order to install wind & solar.
How do wind turbines take up substantial arable land? The wind farm near the university I went to in Indiana was surrounded by corn fields outside of a little dirt road to each one and a small patch of of unseeded space around each turbine likely for a crane.
How do wind turbines take up substantial arable land? The wind farm near the university I went to in Indiana was surrounded by corn fields outside of a little dirt road to each one and a small patch of of unseeded space around each turbine likely for a crane.
Example: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7421689,-87.0894657,152m/dat...
And as others have said, we don't need to worry about solar space until pretty much every roof is covered with solar panels.