> If the subsidies were killed, even shit solar panels would yield more money than a lot of land could yield with growing crops.
For few years, then every solar farm would go bankrupt all while food supplies gone.
TBF New Zealand is one of the few countries that removes subsidies from farmers - it was terrible for few decades, but eventually turned out to be great.
> For few years, then every solar farm would go bankrupt all while food supplies gone.
If there is one thing effectively infinite, it is humanity's demand for energy, particularly with the growing demand from switching transportation and heating over to electricity.
And food supply wouldn't be gone, it would just migrate e.g. to Ukraine.
> humanity's demand for energy
Which was flat for the last decades in the Western world until the AI boom started. The demand was increasing, but efficiency gains were negating it. Generation was increasing ~2% per year.