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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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