How much space is needed for Europe's renewables

 From a tweet by Thomas Hillig

Interesting @Eurelectric slide at #PS22. The small green dots show the area that would be needed for #renewables to achieve the EU clean energy goals for 2030.

A common theme from denialists is that we'd have to cover the whole continent to build enough wind and solar farms to power everything.  Obvious nonsense.  What's more, you can use the space under wind turbines and solar panels to do other things, for example, live (rooftop solar), graze sheep, .....