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Nick on October 2, 2007 - 4:22pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I agree.

I think the bottom line here is that limits to available acreage are very important for plant-based fuels, and unimportant to everything else (oil, solar, wind, nuclear, etc).

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mbkennel on October 3, 2007 - 1:15am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Yes. It's a silly comparison, and I think even the author knows it.

The central constraint for oil production and especially photovoltaics are capital investment costs.

For PV, acres are irrelevant, we have plenty of low-value land with sunshine.

Panels and transmission lines are central.

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