I agree with the suggestion, as it is now, it takes 2048 corn plants for 1 stack of biofuel. this is equivalent to 8 chunks worth of area completely filled with corn plants, plus the water required to grow them. By comparison, one chunk in the ocean can contain multiple stacks of fuel, and most fuel harvesters are harvesting from multiple chunks at a time. The lag caused by the size of corn farm currently needed to make biofuel a viable energy source at a larger scale makes it very difficult to use the area where the farm is located due to lag from the number of entities. Any reduction to the corn required could greatly reduce the lag it causes.

Biofuel won't replace fuel as the best energy source, as it already has a lower energy value than fuel, but it can be more viable for smaller nations and newer players if the area required to produce it in any quantity is reduced.

As my town is the biggest biofuel production in the server at the moment I think I can help with the math here.

Biofuel is really easy and optimal for veteran players: if u try to harvest corn without sprinklers and fertilizer it is extremely inefficient, however using optimal setup for corn with only tier 1 sprinklers and beetroot fertilizer, alongside optimal sc farm in jungle biome, should yield 1 stack of biofuel per 2 chunks every 1:45 hours (from ground to refinery).

As my farm is 16 chunks corn (single layer) and 4 chunks sugar cane (double layer) and makes around 8 stacks of biofuel per 2 hours (including processing).

So to summarise:
For early game player fuel is better
For late game player biofuel is better(scalable) but need alot of setup and infrastructure

**note to anyone wanting to make a biofuel farm, u need this bare minimum before u can get rolling:
16 chunks of corn
4 chunks of sc
16 tier 2 pressure chamber
16 food fabricator
8 food composter

If it gets easier to make, it should give less of energy than it does now

By how much? Also lowering energy really doesn't help in this situation. The idea is to establish a biofuel market (where afaik there was none) and lower how big the farms are. Lowering energy makes people compensate for the lost energy (depending on the amount) .

Biofuel energy is perfect in my eyes rn
if you want for example 10K energy, you pay the same amount for biofuel as if you bought fuel. both energy sources have the same value for J/$
Feel free to check it according to /value

I think the point being made wasn't about the energy in biofuel, it was about the comparative lag caused by farming an equivalent amount of biofuel compared to farming fuel. The custom crop does cause lag and greatly reduce fps, especially in larger quantities. biofuel has less energy per bucket then fuel already, why should producing a comparable amount require 6 times the area minimum of just corn, which causes most of the lag, before we even talk about the sugar cane. it seems like producing biofuel in quantity isn't practical for someone without a beefy computer. The point is that it shouldn't be. No, we don't want to flood the market with it immediately, but it would be more balanced if it didn't require an unreasonably large area to produce at a similar scale to fuel.

Biofuel is infinite, since you can produce and produce so it should be lower than fuel, which is limited

I think all people goes for the wrong reasons BioFuel is perfectly made but i think the thing that should be changed is the design of Sf crops like i like the idea that i do not need to load the chunk for it to grow but as everyone sees 8 chunks filled with corns makes even my 2.5k$ pc lag so i think Sf crops need to be somehow changed not the recipe of the biofuel since if they change the recipe they will have to change also the quality of energy since as ddasexypotato said he already can make 8 stacks of fuel per 2 hours imagine if we change it to the suggested amount this 8 stacks will turn into 1 whole chest so we need to be reasonable. Still in my opinion biofuel which can be made infinite should still need a lot of land so it doesnt become too broken just the sf crops needs to be changed