TIL putting solar panels on land currently used for biofuels would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks to go electric

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• dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Also apparently the vast majority of corn grown is for ethanol, and it takes thousands of gallons of water for every gallon of corn ethanol produced.

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  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Corn production in the US uses 8 times more water than all AI data centers on the entire planet.

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    • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      With more government subsidies.

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• RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I suspect this is if everyone is charging when the sun is out.

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• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How many bananas to a Poland?

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• FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I didn’t know Poland liked corn that much

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• lnxtx@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Polska gurom. /s
  But weird choice, who knows where Poland is?

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  • HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve played enough EU4 that I know exactly where it is. 🤣

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