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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yep. As a rule of thumb, 1/10th of the energy makes it to the next trophic level in any food chain. We might be doing better than that, but you're still going to to be wasting a lot of land at 30% end-to-end efficiency.