Agrisolar exists. If the US converted just a few % of the acreage legally mandated for growing corn for ethanol to solar, the energy crisis essentially solves itself.

They should at least replace the fields producing corn ethanol. Saves the recurring cost of producing the energy, and reduces the emissions of both harvesting and burning.

Huge swathes of land are used just to burn the output.

Farming is much worse for land than PV. PV is almost as good as leaving it untouched, while farming ruins biodiversity through monoculture, nitrate and phosphate pollution, and possibly pesticides.

Large-scale ground-mounted PV is fine and people need to get over it. If you are in the mood to publicly advocate for more environmentally friendly land use, go and protest the grotesque waste of land for crops like corn and sorghum used to produce bioethanol fuels.

I hear you, but solar doesn't block the field. Can still use for grazing, for crops, or as nature. It just reduces sunlight, which is a good thing for crops/grass in dry areas especially.

In America, if we only replaced the fields growing corn for Ethanol production to add to gasoline, leaving every other field alone, we'd have enough energy to power the whole country with a huge surplus to spare. We're already using the fields for energy production, we're just being inefficient about it.

Bro we're gonna starve.