It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produce a calorie of food. From the standpoint of industrial efficiency, it's too bad we can't simply drink the petroleum directly, because there's a lot less energy in a bushel of corn (measured in calories) than there is in the half gallon or so of oil required to produce it. Ecologically this is a fabulously expensive way to produce food.
—from The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, a book by Michael Pollan
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18101. | The (thesaints) | 72.52 | 95% | 2014-07-04 |
18102. | Tran (dicachen81) | 72.52 | 95% | 2011-06-26 |
18103. | James (curley133) | 72.51 | 93% | 2014-10-31 |
18104. | Jason (dvorak_kinesis_adv) | 72.51 | 92% | 2016-12-19 |
18105. | Sanket (newbie24082002) | 72.51 | 96% | 2022-07-05 |
18106. | Faker's (fakers_cousin) | 72.51 | 93% | 2016-05-28 |
18107. | Binnben (letranconghung) | 72.51 | 95% | 2019-05-10 |
18108. | Jakob (jakob170201) | 72.50 | 96% | 2023-08-23 |
18109. | Neeraj (nrjbwj) | 72.50 | 97% | 2023-02-22 |
18110. | Matthew (_blazeburner04) | 72.50 | 97% | 2023-11-18 |
18111. | Sam (litesam) | 72.50 | 98% | 2021-06-10 |
18112. | Keti (keti_hawk) | 72.50 | 97% | 2021-10-12 |
18113. | Dharma (cdharmateja) | 72.50 | 98% | 2021-12-23 |
18114. | Sahil (sahilm) | 72.50 | — | 2010-10-03 |
18115. | Deep (deeptth) | 72.50 | 98% | 2012-10-11 |
18116. | Datucis (datucis) | 72.50 | 91% | 2014-01-23 |
18117. | Harry (twister789) | 72.49 | 97% | 2023-02-23 |
18118. | Kieran (manawa) | 72.49 | 96% | 2021-08-31 |
18119. | varun (_varun) | 72.49 | 98% | 2023-03-25 |
18120. | Anais (fudgeebarr) | 72.49 | 97.2% | 2023-12-18 |
18121. | Sho (shonadem25) | 72.49 | 96% | 2018-01-03 |
18122. | Damiano (fullomen) | 72.49 | 96% | 2019-08-06 |
18123. | Darwin (darw11n) | 72.49 | 94% | 2022-05-02 |
18124. | Christian (mayne) | 72.49 | — | 2011-01-14 |
18125. | Morgan (jakarta) | 72.49 | 94% | 2012-04-20 |
18126. | meg (wyandotte) | 72.48 | 99% | 2024-05-16 |
18127. | WriterType (writertype) | 72.48 | 96.8% | 2023-11-23 |
18128. | 雲煙成雨 (1eonardo) | 72.48 | 95% | 2022-01-13 |
18129. | kusper (kusper) | 72.48 | 96% | 2021-12-05 |
18130. | marsistX (marsistx) | 72.48 | 98% | 2014-09-06 |
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Default (English) | 70,097 | 81.38 | June 9, 2010 |
Long Texts | 89 | 92.00 | December 30, 2016 |
Instant Death Mode | 49 | 84.87 | July 2, 2010 |
##typeracer | 4 | 75.56 | January 9, 2021 |
Walsh Middle School | 1 | 81.61 | November 28, 2011 |
Smoke Rise Prep | 0 | 0.00 | January 1, 1970 |