A sugar cane
farm currently can
get 72.5 liters of
ethanol per ton of
sugar cane. For
1
hectare (10,000 m2)
you can produce 60
tons of sugar cane
(1 acre = 4047
m2). The energy
content of ethanol
is 24 MJ/L and
density is 789
kg/m3. If the US
consumes 1.05 x 1020
J of
energy per year
calculate the land
needed in km2 to
collect the equivalent
amount of
energy needed to
power the United
States for a year.
Assume you can only
harvest once
per year.
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