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$18.25/year/square meter at $2.50 per liter of kerosene. The US currently generates 0.6kg/year/square meter of cereal -- and that's on fertile (irrigated...) la
by Tloewald 13y ago
$18.25/year/square meter at $2.50 per liter of kerosene. The US currently generates 0.6kg/year/square meter of cereal -- and that's on fertile (irrigated...) land.
So, assuming that most of the plant is low maintenance and not too expensive to manufacture it's not that bad. Certainly I don't think that turning corn into fuel is anywhere near as efficient.
- masklinn 13y agoWhere do you get the $2.5 figure? According to http://www.transtats.bts.gov/fuel.asp http://www.transtats.bts.gov/fuel.asp, in 2013 the average was $3/gal of kerosene, or 0.8$/liter.
- Tloewald 13y agoI got the figure from Amazon (having guess $4/gallon initially) but am happy to stand corrected. Even so, far more efficient than corn -> ethanol.