New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production. It’s no contest.
www.anthropocenemagazine.org
In fact, it would require about 31 hectares of corn ethanol to produce the same amount of energy generated by one ha of land covered in solar panels.
  • drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I’m surprised that the difference is apparently that low considering the efficiency of photosynthesis vs the photovoltaic effect, the fact that not all of the plant gets turned into ethanol, and the efficiency of the combustion process.