OK.. the simple question is if first generation plants like rapseed give similar numbers.
Wathc out.. you just need a factor of three to tip the scale. If there is no factor of three in any crop, first-generation out.
Actually I was thinking about second-geneation. I think there should be simple plants or algae allowing for 6000/10000 liters per ha.
So if you can confrim that the others first generation plants give 3000 I would say so in the input requesting inmediately the research and selection of secon generation crops.
This would be my take....becauae I cerainly think that 6000 liters per ha with some non tytpical crop is possible...I do nto know how enviromentally simple though...
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
That is science fiction, isn't it? Considering that crops (domesticated plants) have been bred for thousands of years to increase nutrient yield, I doubt you can hope for a super corn or anything like that [unless you genetically engineer corn to use all the energy it puts into growing a 2m long stalk into making more kernels...
Really, the question here is whether it is reasonable for the EU to aim for 5% ethanol/biodiesel by the end of the decade. What is the environmental impact? WHat is the land use impact? Nothing is 'mere'. — Richard P. Feynman
Unfortunately, for all I have read, it has only been over a fortnight and there are a large number of aspects I have simply laid aside for lack of time. (Or expert knowledge). So I don't have all the numbers on every crop at my fingertips.
If, by a factor of three, you mean multiplying the energy yield from the sun (not, of course, as a result of adding energy inputs such as more fertilser) by three, I think I can say it's not on in any foreseeable future, and not even with GMs. (GMs generally offer pretty modest advantages, linked of course to chemicals etc). A GM (or X-breed) that would suddenly triple its energy storage without increase of non-solar energy inputs would be a revolution we would be hearing about, and hearing about, imho. Its first application would surely be food, which brings us back to Point A: we should be producing food rather than vehicle fuel.
But I wil not be so sure with algae or with some oter very siple organism..wher the quantity of area needed will be much more lower. this is, the crops we are talking take a lot of space per unit energy.
So... I think that if you number are rigth.. I will be for looking into these alternative organisms...
By the way.. it wa actually close to 15 % a factor of 3 plus doubling efficiency of cars makes it 90%...so enough for a very goof fleat.
Do we include it in the input?
