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Solar can even help regain space, since it can be put on roofs and replace 30 times more space-inefficient Biogas electricity production.

Further solar plants can be combined with efforts to give nature back some space, since solar farms produce energy without agricultural use of the land, perhaps even the use of pesticides and other poisons.

You don't even have to mowe really, since the modules are usually further in the air than natural grass.

Though you probably have to prevent trees and bushes to grow in areas which used to be forest (hundreds of years ago before humans made farmland out of everything)



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