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Originally Posted by PhishPhood
Here is another 'order of magnitude' perspective.
Just to cut our usage by 20% we'd need 7000 of these plants at 1000 acres each across the US at a cost of about $7 Trillion.
However there are only about 3500 county or 'county equivalents' in the entire US. That means each and every one of these would have to set aside 2000 acres!! ( NYC, Chicago, LA, Rhode Island, etc ) in order to produce this bio-ethanol. Rots of Ruck.
The technology is promising but it has to be far far more productive, by at least a factor of 10 or 20 or 50.
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No where in the article does it say anything about 1000 acres per plant. Nowhere does it say how big the plant actually is either. So all your numbers are way off.