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  • That’s not how plants work.

    Numbers vary btwn species and individuals, but plants can only use so much light at once. Many can even sunburn! Then the plant has to metabolize all that!

    So grass growing at even 60% efficiency under a solar field running at even 60% efficiency isn’t a terrible use of land, and given the diminishing returns for tightly packed shit, you’re much more likely to get something like 100/80, which is an amazing use of land.

    Not as good as growing berries or basil or something under solar panels, but still pretty good.











  • The great thing now is that we are currently ending the world, so there won’t be anywhere for that civilization to be.

    Dont say space.²

    If you want a future, kill your masters.

    If you want to kill yourself and everyone else, get yourself some weed and eggs Benedict, and just keep doing what you’re doing¹.

    ¹assuming you’re not spectacularly cool. If you’re spectacularly cool a change in behavior may be required.

    ²Nobody who says that has ever allowed a serious expert into the same room as them. It may not be theoretically possible, we certainly aren’t within a century of unsupported space settlement. We haven’t even sent a person out of orbit yet.