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by Gibbon1 63 days ago
Worth noting you don't have to spray solar panels with pesticides and herbicides either. Nor do they require fertilizer. All of these have real negative effects.

Pesticides are causing a decline in insect populations and the animals that eat them. Herbicides what can say more than that. Fertilizer causes algae blooms and hypoxic conditions in lakes and streams. All three cause ground water pollution.

I'm a broken record, solar is 30 times more productive per acre than ethanol corn.

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Precisely. We both forgot to mention nitrous oxide, very potent GHG released due to the fertilizer use.