Technology Connections with one of the best videos I've ever seen making the case for renewable energy.
The really striking bit pointed out that if the land in the US currently being used for biofuels for cars was converted to solar panels and batteries and even if we neglected even more efficient land use like agrivoltaics, the USA could more than power itself (including EV cars) without impacting food production.
Land use is a tricky balance and the USA has a very different mix from, say, Scotland but even here we could be doing a LOT more with rooftop solar, brownfield sites and marginal land to power Scotland with wind, solar and batteries before we have to touch prime agricultural land (and, again, even that neglects the potential benefits of co-use via agrivoltaics)
While I absolutely encourage everyone to watch the full thing, the core takeaway is this:
Solar and batteries have changed everything. Anyone who says we shouldn't be maxxing out that capacity pretty much to the exclusion of non-renewables either hasn't grasped that reality or is lying to you.
