Re:The Case Against More Ethanol (2016)
by adrianN on Monday November 02, 2020 @06:58AM
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Pay the farmers to put up solar panels instead. You get a lot more energy that way. For example, replace all land used for "energy crops" in Germany with solar panels and you get about as much energy as Germany consumes in total.
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I like this, do you have any idea how I can compare revenue per acre?
It must be reasonably close, since both solar fields and traditional crops exist in Germany.
Of course both get subsidised to various extents, and the prices of energy, crops and labour all fluctuate - but you can guess they're equal within a factor of two.