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Actually, the secrets of how plants harvest energy are pretty well understood and they have not proven very useful for providing practical energy. What we have is ridiculous policies like ethanol subsidies and wood chips being shipped across the ocean to be burned. Nate Lewis explains it well starting at 48 minutes in on this classic video. It may be over a decade old, but it’s one of the best elaborations on the scale of energy I’ve ever seen:
Actually, the secrets of how plants harvest energy are pretty well understood and they have not proven very useful for providing practical energy. What we have is ridiculous policies like ethanol subsidies and wood chips being shipped across the ocean to be burned. Nate Lewis explains it well starting at 48 minutes in on this classic video. It may be over a decade old, but it’s one of the best elaborations on the scale of energy I’ve ever seen:
https://youtu.be/EUKqx2uk-Gs?t=2891