Thread by @ShellenbergerMD

Industrial solar farms require 300-400 times more land than natural gas or nuclear plants

The range is actually much larger. Power density (land use) calculations from around the world can be found here

environmentalprogress.org/energy1

Coal, enslaved labor, and Chinese government subsidies made solar panels “cheap,” not tech innovation

And there’s no solution to the waste

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/why-everythi…

The reason everyone is so shocked by how hideous industrial solar farms look is because supposedly objective environmental journalists are propagandists for the renewables industry, with many of them, like @guardian directly funded by the industry for co-branded “journalism”

To people who say “We can just put them on roofs!,” ask yourselves why people *don’t* just do that

The reason is bc rooftop solar = ~2x expensive.

Easier to just spread a bunch of panels over nature

I used to think renewables were good for the environment. I was wrong. Here’s why

quillette.com/2019/02/27/why…