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Dead ground is not so good for biodiversity, with the standard way you have wild grass and flowers beneath.



The optics are bad-- like this advanced civilization here on Earth decided to make a Dyson sphere of our own planet.


I take your point, but arguably the optics of burning up every last drop of fossil fuel are worse.


Already, 96% of mammal biomass is humans and livestock. No one has the power to stop this process, to do what it would take. Enforcing a strict max-2 child policy on the whole world and/or telling people to live in the pods and eat the bugs. Hopefully, once our civilization goes interplanetary, we can try to restore a bit of what was lost.


Fertility rate is already below replacement for all of the world except sub-Saharan Africa, and it's dropping there too. We're headed for population decline within a century unless something changes dramatically.


probably better than mining it


Covering the ground with impermeable surfaces isn't great either. (Maybe they have drain holes at regular intervals so that's not as much of a problem?)

I'm guessing they will probably need a tall fence around the outside to keep deer away.



agrivoltaics requires more space between racks to provide sufficient light for the plants to grow. that's neither a good or a bad thing - it's just a statement of fact about the paired compromises that arise from combining PV generation with agriculture. It is still likely a good idea in many places.


But still better than growing corn or soybeans on the ground.


Maybe more efficient but also more sterile.




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