They basically salt the land with permanent herbicides and turn it into the surface of the moon. That’s really interesting. Out of the many books of research I’ve read about the costs of solar, the intermittency and unreliability, the dependence on tax-breaks, the Shockley–Queisser limit, the large costs of necessary back-up, the dependence on China, the cost of landfill - I’ve never heard anyone mention this. Of course, killing all vegetation for 20 years would be an obvious necessity. Any idea what is used?
" killing all vegetation for 20 years would be an obvious necessity. Any idea what is used?"
No, I don't. But it stays dead for years.
As I noted earlier, too, it's super fun when a field is hit by a hail storm (pictured), everything breaks, and the toxic cadmium pours into the ground, making it completely unsuitable for growing crops, ever.