> I agree that massive expansion of biomass generation would impact agricultural land.
It would; just look at the amount of farmland currently used to produce plants used for the production of biofuels. It's a big impact on the food production capacity of the world, and it's mainly used to mix with regular oil-based fuels so that the oil/gas companies adhere to government standards, tax reductions and customer goodwill, whilst the biofuel producers get government grants and fundings and more tax deductions.
Of course, that's (iirc) first-generation biofuel, second/third generation (or grade) biofuel uses biowaste (shells, green stuff, animal waste, stuff that would otherwise be processed into compost or fertilizer).
It would; just look at the amount of farmland currently used to produce plants used for the production of biofuels. It's a big impact on the food production capacity of the world, and it's mainly used to mix with regular oil-based fuels so that the oil/gas companies adhere to government standards, tax reductions and customer goodwill, whilst the biofuel producers get government grants and fundings and more tax deductions.
Of course, that's (iirc) first-generation biofuel, second/third generation (or grade) biofuel uses biowaste (shells, green stuff, animal waste, stuff that would otherwise be processed into compost or fertilizer).
source: my memory