Given the U.S. consumes about 4 petawatts hours of electricity per year, It would take about 13,600,000 acres or 21,250 square miles of solar panels to meet the total electricity requirements of the United States for a year.
I see you didn't even try to justify your bullshit there.
Of course corn and solar panels are different. For one thing, an acre of solar panels produces vastly more economic value per year than an acre of corn. What the corn observation does is show that the idea that this is too much area is insipid nonsense.
I could have easily compared the area to other things, like golf courses, parking lots, roads, or areas given over to fossil fuel production.
At face value, how is this sentence not implying something like that a car battery that gives 10 miles of range and takes up most of the weight and volume of the vehicle would be perfectly okay, if it cost $10 (including installation), and could be fully charged for 10 cents.
Renewables are not even close to others in for example energy density.
Covering half the country with expensive and costly solar panels is not a scalable option.