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New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production. It's no contest
(www.anthropocenemagazine.org)
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Fuck ethanol and biofuels. They're a scam on several different levels, but it is especially horrible how much farmland they waste with it for absolutely no redeeming value. It's not scalable or sustainable and it never was, it's just a way to greenwash fossil fuels so they don't look so bad and so that as long as they keep pumping it out of the ground they can use ethanol to pretend you're getting "green fuel" despite all the petroleum products used to make it and all the petroleum products it gets mixed with. The only good thing about ethanol is that it is really good at making small seasonal engines unreliable and maintenance prone, which makes electric equipment much more attractive in comparison. Score one for the good guys I guess, and score about 20 for the fossil fuel industry because that's mainly who ethanol benefits.