Ebbie, I know of no reason why the land wind farms are on could not also be used for agriculture. Or a whole bunch of other possible purposes, for that matter.

I know this thread is specifically about solar energy, but I haven't seen any responses to the idea of a string of large turbines being anchored to the sea floor in strong ocean currents, such as the Gulf Stream or the many other ocean currents.

Objections such as "they'll kill whales" or "fish" or whatever just don't wash. It would be easy to prevent with a simple mesh screen around them.

This would be a tremendous source of power.

Or several different ways of harnessing tidal power. Lunar energy,harnessing the gravitational pull of the moon!

Clean, ongoing energy is out there for the taking. Are we just lacking in unimagination?

Don Firth