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Butterflychunks t1_j20o34o wrote

Reply to comment by NotObviouslyARobot in What would food look like if we could scale up lab grown meat? by sandcrawler56

Then solar really starts to take off.

> Goddamn it I can’t afford this cow farm anymore. 400 acres in the middle of nowhere, how could I make much money off of this land? Plus it’s hot as shit, the sun is beating down every day all year…

> I’VE STRUCK GOLD!

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NotObviouslyARobot t1_j20u3e5 wrote

That however, due to economies of scale, and power transmission--only favors super-large landowners.

We already have a model for what happens to resource poor land, and it's the mega-billionaire ranches of Texas.

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