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The other comment is probably right, that this varies widely, but getting a vague order of magnitude is still useful. From some amateur googling, it seems that an acre requires on the order of 100 lbs/year (50-300lbs, though the higher figures seem to also include things other than just nitrogen/ammonia).

So 1 ton/day (assuming metric tonnage), would be in the range of 8000 acres/year, though with obviously large error bars.




This being about 32km^2, combined with this: https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/9582/how-m... and ignoring the "round-robin" nature of the per-day restriction, it seems this might help to feed 50,000 people per such installation




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