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How is not the same thing? You can’t use the land for anything else. What just because you didn’t use heavy machinery to extract minerals, but instead covered t
by hitpointdrew 4y ago
How is not the same thing? You can’t use the land for anything else. What just because you didn’t use heavy machinery to extract minerals, but instead covered the land with panels that is somehow morally superior? The land can’t be used for anything else, so it’s essentially “destroyed”.
- otherme123 4y agoYou can dismantle a solar covered land when needed, in weeks, and get back the soil almost as good as new. A mine place gets wrecked for at least a century. I present you Las Medulas, a gold mine exploited by the romans in the first century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_M%C3%A9dulas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_M%C3%A9dulas. Even today, 2,000 years later, all you can see is the huge scar left behind the mine.
- hitpointdrew 4y agoAnd where do you think the materials to make solar panels come from? They come from mines.
- modeless 4y agoAnd how much electricity can you get per square meter of mined ground for solar vs. coal? The answer is in the linked article, though it is not obvious at first glance. And it's not clear to me how much recycling the materials in the panels is accounted for. Of course you can't recycle coal at all.