i completely agree, but as long as this is all driven by economics the existence of those corn subsidies is going to mean the farmland that gets repurposed won'

i completely agree, but as long as this is all driven by economics the existence of those corn subsidies is going to mean the farmland that gets repurposed won't be the farmland that gets the most government subsidies, it'll be the farmland that grows the cheap food that people need to eat. i know ethanol farming is a waste, but it's a lot easier to convert a corn field back into a useful farm field before you've built a solar farm on top of it, rather than afterwards