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You can get land in upstate NY for $1000/acre. There's a lot of cheap rural land even on the east cost.

Arguing that Manhattan is expensive therefore PV doesn't work is like arguing Manhattan is expensive therefore agriculture doesn't work.



Edit2: Closest found was 9k per acre a little over 250 miles away.


You can find much cheaper than that. For example, at $1128/acre:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/0-Ward-Loomis-Rd-Oxford-N...

(~214 miles from Oxford NY to Manhattan by road)

(search in Zillow by county)


250 miles is a totally normal distance for high voltage AC electrical transmission lines.


Running normal high voltage lines 250 miles isn’t free, and that cost should be part of the comparison used.

Also, the cheapest land I found was 4k/acre, still well above pfdietz’s estimate.


I don't think I've posted any land cost estimates, elsewhere in this thread I mentioned how many warehouse roofs in NJ, Staten island and long island have no solar on them.




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