Ethanol corn might be stupid stupid, but midwest farming is far more valuable than a stupid government subsidy program (ethanol i mean).

The midwest has water.

Or at least far more of it than Arizona or California. If we're going to cover the Midwest in silica, it should be to build greenhouses for water extensive crops and not for panels.

In fact there shouldn't be an acre of farmland with a solar panel on it until every every inch of roof and parking lot of LA and Phoenix has a solar panel first.

EDIT: typo. s/Id/If/