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A tweet by some news company saying “Your bowl of rice is hurting the climate too.” It has a link to an article and a picture of a bowl of rice. It has a quote saying “Should I just die”

  • drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 days ago

    How does a 66% reduction in co2 emitted per fuel gallon used barely help

    Where does this figure come from? Is this in regards to e70 / e90 fuel or normal e10?

    For the latter, I’m pretty sure that’s impossible.

    • AndiHutch@lemmy.zip
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      8 days ago

      I wasn’t referring to a specific fuel, I meant per amount of energy used it emits 66% percent less co2 since ethanol production in the US has a ~3x return on fossil fuel investment. I am basing the figure on the same source on the energy return on energy invested balance I used in my other comment in the thread. Here is the source.

      It doesn’t matter the mix it is in, since it takes the equivalent of 1 gallon of fossil energy and outputs 3x as much cleanish bioenergy. If it is E10 it would take 10 gallons before 1 gallon of ethanol was used, but that 1 gallon of ethanol would result in a third of the CO2 emissions compared to gasoline fuel.