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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| 30158. | Dipankar (dipankarkumar275) | 65.28 | 98.1% | 2024-02-02 |
| 30159. | Martina (mrtna_sa) | 65.28 | 97% | 2024-02-07 |
| 30160. | Andrei (sobercheg) | 65.28 | — | 2011-02-04 |
| 30161. | 风中凌乱的小蜜桃 (y... | 65.28 | 96% | 2013-07-02 |
| 30162. | manusora (mausora) | 65.27 | 96% | 2025-04-15 |
| 30163. | Rachel (kimdasomiie) | 65.27 | 96% | 2024-03-25 |
| 30164. | TocadorDeTeclas (tocadordet... | 65.27 | 96% | 2024-05-03 |
| 30165. | Fausto (fausto2002) | 65.27 | 96% | 2024-04-30 |
| 30166. | BTWIUseArchlinux (sudo_rm_rf) | 65.27 | 97% | 2024-02-25 |
| 30167. | Amr (amr620) | 65.27 | 97% | 2021-07-16 |
| 30168. | Jesse (karmajr) | 65.27 | 96% | 2023-04-05 |
| 30169. | Locomotion22 (locomotion22) | 65.27 | 94.9% | 2023-12-16 |
| 30170. | Mike (mike1835) | 65.27 | 96% | 2020-10-22 |
| 30171. | na (omar777) | 65.27 | 99% | 2014-12-15 |
| 30172. | GIMLY98 (gimly98) | 65.27 | 94% | 2017-03-18 |
| 30173. | Evangelos (es305) | 65.27 | 94% | 2013-06-26 |
| 30174. | Ethan Fernandez (ecf735) | 65.26 | 95.4% | 2024-09-17 |
| 30175. | Muli Muncher (mulimuncher) | 65.26 | 97% | 2024-06-11 |
| 30176. | greendragons (greendragons) | 65.26 | 96% | 2022-09-30 |
| 30177. | Flying fingers (tg_gamer) | 65.26 | 96.8% | 2023-12-27 |
| 30178. | Tilt (brianrk25) | 65.26 | 97.3% | 2024-02-10 |
| 30179. | Wen Li (ykk3555) | 65.26 | 91% | 2017-03-15 |
| 30180. | ~ (vege3000) | 65.25 | 95% | 2024-06-25 |
| 30181. | Jack Bauer (jackbau) | 65.25 | 97% | 2024-07-11 |
| 30182. | rayn (brassmanry) | 65.25 | 95% | 2024-06-08 |
| 30183. | Ali (shamigiri) | 65.25 | 96% | 2017-04-04 |
| 30184. | Mashi (cobalt58) | 65.25 | 96.6% | 2024-05-09 |
| 30185. | Fadhiel (padil) | 65.25 | 97% | 2011-08-12 |
| 30186. | Jane (joey2216) | 65.25 | 93% | 2017-03-20 |
| 30187. | Henry (huaj811) | 65.24 | 97% | 2025-01-10 |
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| Long Texts | 153 | 84.32 | December 30, 2016 |
| Instant Death Mode | 49 | 84.87 | July 2, 2010 |
| Smoke Rise Prep | 12 | 71.91 | January 1, 2024 |
| ##typeracer | 4 | 75.56 | January 9, 2021 |
| Walsh Middle School | 1 | 81.61 | November 28, 2011 |