Thought for the day

[Ken]

"Looking at land-use efficiency, corn-derived ethanol used to power internal combustion engines requires about 85x (range: 63-197x) as much land to power the same number of transportation miles as solar PV powering electric vehicles."
Corn ethanol is an incredibly bad idea for government support. If all the land currently dedicated to Corn ethanol were replaced with solar panels we would be practically done with our energy generation build out needs for zero emissions. If those lands with solar panels had low growth native plants below them, a huge amount of carbon would sequestered in the soil and a huge amount of carbon emissions would be avoided from pesticide and fertilizer manufacturing.

[dan_b]

I’m staggered at how much crop production is required to make bio-ethanol.
The sooner EVs become the main form of motorised land transport the better…