Solar land use is such a non-issue. Consider tokyo as an example of a space where area is at an absolute premium. There are around 7000 people per km^2 Shrink

Solar land use is such a non-issue. Consider tokyo as an example of a space where area is at an absolute premium. There are around 7000 people per km^2 Shrink it down to a single block. Tokyo's blocks are a little smaller, but a common size is 100x200m for ease. At 0.7kWh/day/m^2 there are 14,000kWh/day available in this area shared between 140 people. This is about 100kWh/day each. This isn't quite enough to be as absurdly wasteful as someone from Australia or the US, but it covers the total per capita energy consumption of people living pretty much anywhere else. Note that this is just the net solar electricity available in a high density metropolis as an input vs all energy (including thermal) used everywhere. As soon as you add in medium density towns or industrial areas there is an abundance of space for panels so long as we stop being exponentially more wasteful with the available energy. Anyone bringing it up is a fossil fuel or nuclear shill.