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Re:The Case Against Octopus Farming by mikorym on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @07:41AM (#20633756)
Was your argument about biomagnification or energy? Because the latter is a less convincing argument: Plants are inefficient energy converters already.
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Re:The Case Against Octopus Farming by jagannathtech on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @10:32PM (#20641308)
There is nothing less convincing about that. It takes a lot of plants to get some meat. So a little 'inefficient energy converters' are better than a ton of them.
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Re:The Case Against Octopus Farming by mikorym on Thursday August 08, 2019 @01:36AM (#20642117)
Efficiency of solar conversion is only important in so far as where solar energy is a limiting factor. In our case, it is not. There is plenty solar energy that reaches the earth and that we are not using.
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