Someting that I have always wondered about solar panel arrays- they are just as land intensive as say, a strip mine. Land covered by panels is not going to grow anything, and no wildlife is going to be using it, and there's going to be big infrastructure aspects too, plus local temperature changes. I read somewhere that it would take 100 acres of solar panels to produce the same energy output as one natural gas well footprint at 1 acre.
Yet solar is supposed to be minimal impact ?
Wind, solar, and even hydro power is most likely more land intensive than coal and nuclear.
A strip mine can be reclaimed.
Ash landfill space can be reclaimed.
Millions and millions of acres devoted to windfarms and solar panels will be permanently used for that purpose. Add in ALL the extra wires that will occupy space and I believe you have more land per MW capacity used than conventional and nuclear.
The truth is, the true green movement doesn't even want us to use wind and solar. It's an issue they use to get us to commit energy suicide and shut down coal, oil, and nuclear power. They lie and tell us "renewables" have to be rushed into service, we need to shut down the conventional power sources, and conserve for the "energy gap" (which is HUGE). Once that is done, they will shut off the wind/solar energy too. They want humans to just go away.