Today's Required Reading: The Biden Administration Misleads the Public on the Vast Expanses of Land Needed for 'Net Zero'

[Note: Everyone should read this excellent piece of investigative journalism by James Varney at RealClearInvestigations published this morning. I spoke with James at some length about the issue back in August, as he was rounding up information for the story. This is just outstanding work, and it can be read in full at this link.]

The Biden administration is misleading the country about the amount of land that will be required to meet its ambitious renewable energy goals, RealClearInvestigations has found.  

National Renewable Energy Laboratory: Critics call its estimates "utter rubbish," among other things.

The Department of Energy’s official line – echoed by many environmental activists and academics – is that the vast array of solar panels and wind turbines required to meet Biden’s goal of “100% clean electricity” by 2035 will require “less than one-half of one percent of the contiguous U.S. land area.” This topline number translates into 15,000 of the lower 48’s roughly 3 million square miles.