Insects Are in Serious Trouble

Re:Insects Are in Serious Trouble by maxerickson on Monday October 23, 2017 @06:09PM (#15537350)

The sun can supply an awful lot of power. Humans use something like 10 or 20 terawatts of power (constantly), the sun smacks the earth with ~100 petawatts of power.

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Re:Insects Are in Serious Trouble by pygy_ on Monday October 23, 2017 @07:05PM (#15537670)

Given how destructive we are at 20 TW, I don't want to see what will happen when we consume more.

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Re:Insects Are in Serious Trouble by pygy_ on Monday October 23, 2017 @07:58PM (#15538020)

Does your estimation take into account the energy absorbed by the plans we farm?

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Re:Insects Are in Serious Trouble by maxerickson on Monday October 23, 2017 @08:32PM (#15538203)

No, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption

We spend a lot of that sun on meat and other livestock products though:

https://ourworldindata.org/yields-and-land-use-in-agricultur...

(the numbers in the second figure)

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Re:Insects Are in Serious Trouble by pygy_ on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @02:31AM (#15539656)

Thanks

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Re:Insects Are in Serious Trouble by dredmorbius on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @02:44PM (#15552928)

About 40% of NPP.

https://dge.carnegiescience.edu/DGE/Dukes/Dukes_ClimChange1....

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