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Less than half an acre.

They sell land by the acre.

Mr. Kawaguchi's rice paddies produce 2.4 tonnes per acre at most, 1.2 tonnes per acre at least.

That farmer cultivated a 200 acre plantation.

My 1.7 acre rice paddy completely failed.

I bought an eight acre farm for my retirement.

I bought an eight acre farm for my retirement.

This was a very large mall on a hundred acre superblock.

That is to say, microalgae contributes between 2,000 and 5,000 gallons per acre per year, compared to the 50 gallons per acre per year from soy.

And five megawatts per 10 acres, that's half a megawatt per acre.

We had our own half acre farm that we had to grow everything.

Manhattan had more ecological communities per acre than Yosemite does, than Yellowstone, than Amboseli.

The same thing that was done to Chico Mendes in the state of Acre,

Down the road from his forest garden, Martin has created a four acre nut orchard.

living off the grid on their 1,700 acre ranch in the mountains of Sonoma County.

It's now an empty, six acre lot waiting for a shopping mall right across from the new Ikea.

Reservations are cut up into 160 acre sections, and distributed to individual Indians with the surplus disposed of.

Well what percentage of those bombs do you think actually landed inside the 700 acre perimeter of the plant?

That's roughly double the amount of people that we can currently feed from an average acre of conventional arable farmland.

You're talking sweet chestnuts, two tonnes an acre or something, which is pretty much what you get growing wheat organically.

After one harvest, they had increased their income enough to buy a second system to do their full quarter acre.

If you move up to fission, you got hundreds of thousands more watts per square foot, per acre, per pound. Whatever.

So Biosphere 2 was essentially a three acre, entirely sealed, miniature world that I lived in for two years and 20 minutes.

And over the course of 22 bombing missions, the Allies dropped 85,000 bombs on this 757 acre chemical plant, using the Norden bombsight.

In other words, that risk on the quarter acre needed to be repaid in a single harvest, or else they wouldn't take the risk.

What I mean is with the profits from the first quarter acre, the farmers could buy a second and a third and a fourth.

They created a 27,000 acre fish farm bass, mullet, shrimp, eel and in the process, Miguel and this company completely reversed the ecological destruction.

But previously it's only been created for large scale farms, so Ami Tabar took this and modularized it down to an eighth of an acre.

80,000 individuals are good enough to control one acre, 4,000 square meters, of a strawberry plot against spider mites for the whole season of almost one year.

So, you know, in terms of one designed for maximum yield, you would be able to feed probably ten people an acre on a maximum yield forest garden.

So what we're doing is, we're taking the most concentrated greenhouse gas sink, twice as much greenhouse gases are sequestered in the boreal per acre than the tropical rainforests.

At Britain's current rate of oil use, a whole year's harvest from a four acre field like this would be used up in less than one third of a second.

And so we've created the eco acre transfer to transfer development rights to the transit corridors and allow the re greening of those former subdivisions for food and energy production.

The only technology involved here is this cheap electric fencing relatively new, hooked to a car battery even I could carry a quarter acre paddock, set it up in 15 minutes.

The house isn't huge and it's on about two thirds of an acre, and when we first bought it I spent several hours every week getting the lawnmower fixed and cutting the lawn, in that order.

If you have a threat out there, that might not work too well because you have to secure the whole perimeter and so now all your soldiers spend their time patrolling the hundred acre solar farm.

The drip irrigation system had to be small enough that a farmer only had to risk a quarter acre, even if he had two, because it was too frightening, given all that he had at stake.

So we're in the process of helping them design deep well, low cost manual pumps in order for these people who have a quarter acre of land to be able to grow crops in the off season.

This is the Forensic Anthropology Research Facility, and on a six acre plot there are approximately 75 cadavers at any given time that are being studied by forensic anthropologists and researchers who are interested in monitoring a rate of corpse decomposition.

It would produce, at 2,000 gallons per acre per year, it would produce over 2 million gallons of fuel, which is about 20 percent of the biodiesel, or of the diesel that would be required in San Francisco, and that's without doing anything about efficiency.

Here you see a graph showing you the different types of crops that are being considered for making biofuels, so you can see some things like soybean, which makes 50 gallons per acre per year, or sunflower or canola or jatropha or palm, and that tall graph there shows what microalgae can contribute.