Renewable works, people are just weird about it because of propaganda.

I have two 500W solar panels that I mostly bought for camping but are hooked up to my house because why not. They average ~5kWh a day over the year which is about a gallon of gas a week (~34kWh). Every gallon of gas I’ve ever bought I’ve set on fire using it and have to buy another one.

The panels will be good for a few decades, though eventually it will take them 8 or more days to generate “a gallon of gas worth of electricity”, and at that point they’re mostly aluminum, glass, and silicon, which are all extremely recyclable. The degradation of solar panels is because that the shapes they need to be in to harvest sunlight get bent out of shape over time. They don’t become worthless afterward.

I absolutely hate that my subscription page is basically just recommendations and shorts at the top that I have to scroll past.

Small airfields?

IDK maybe they can be repurposed into something. Industrial sized microwave?

One of the advantages of water is even if your target area is measured in square miles it’s all roughly at sea level. If you miss your target area on land you have to account for that and trees and wildlife and hopefully not buildings.

Like the above said, you can do either, it’s kind of a wash. But a water based landing does simplify some things.