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Analysis reveals solar farms produce 100 times more energy per acre than corn ethanol
One million acres of land in Wisconsin is currently used to grow corn for ethanol
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MADISON — When you drive past mile after mile of Wisconsin corn fields, you may not realize that a quarter of all that corn — about a million acres — is used to produce ethanol. But a new analysis from Clean Wisconsin reveals that when it comes to land use, the state could reap far more energy from solar.