"pounds per acre"? what an unfriendly unit. I assume this is something like a pound weight of oil-substitute per acre per year, right? a pound-weight of petrol is roughly 0.6 liters. So, roughly, your acre of palm oil will produce ~360 liters or petrol a year, or ~900 litres per hectare. (for comparison above, that's ~0.1 W/m^2)
the UK uses ~50 billion litres or fuel a year, requiring ~50 million hectares, or twice the area of the UK.
biofuels do not add up. we will never produce then in sufficient quantities to do anything other than make food more expensive.
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"pounds per acre"? what an unfriendly unit. I assume this is something like a pound weight of oil-substitute per acre per year, right? a pound-weight of petrol is roughly 0.6 liters. So, roughly, your acre of palm oil will produce ~360 liters or petrol a year, or ~900 litres per hectare. (for comparison above, that's ~0.1 W/m^2)
the UK uses ~50 billion litres or fuel a year, requiring ~50 million hectares, or twice the area of the UK.
biofuels do not add up. we will never produce then in sufficient quantities to do anything other than make food more expensive.