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Figuring land use into renewable-energy equation

CAMBRIDGE, Tons.--Imagine if your country had an unlimited budget but a limited amount of land: what renewable energy has the most possibility?

Rutgers University professor Clinton Andrews and colleagues ran the numbers on this thought investigation and came up with some surprises. They identified clear limits on some technologies, notably biofuels, but concluded that the bigger challenges to renewable vigour and land relate to siting energy facilities, particularly transmission lines.

Andrews presented an first version of the paper at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy conference here on Monday. The aspiration of this analysis and others like it is to size up the land requirements for different renewable-energy sources which, in many cases, instruct more land than fossil fuels and nuclear power.

As the U.S. and other countries seek to ramp up renewable-dash production, land use is becoming a more contentious issue. Already plans to build large-scale solar plants and decrease farms in the U.S. have been opposed for aesthetic and environmental reasons. Even for distributed energy sources, such as rooftop panels, permitting and siting issues remain standing to loom large because upgrades to the electricity grid are needed, the study found.

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