• rainwall@piefed.social
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    4 hours ago

    Technology connections did the math out on this. He found that acre for acre, even assuming very poor fuel mileage for an electric car, the same land used to produce electricity instead of corn for fuel would be about 70x more efficient.

    He also found that if we used only ethanol corn fields for solar panels and no other land, we would produce 7x the current total power demand of the United States.