Randall Munroe (xkcd) did a video [0] a while back to promote his book "How To" where he addressed several (mostly silly) ways of powering a hypothetical home u

Randall Munroe (xkcd) did a video [0] a while back to promote his book "How To" where he addressed several (mostly silly) ways of powering a hypothetical home using only energy gathered on-site. In it, he calculated that 0.2 acres of trees only produces about 38 watts of usable power, if you burn them to generate electricity at the same rate they grow. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1tcyEo2tQk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1tcyEo2tQk