silence7M to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.English · 5 months agoThe One Climate Policy All 2024 Candidates Support Is Actually Terrible | Ethanol is a comically inefficient form of solar energy—and a toxic one. Solar panels would be betternewrepublic.comexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up1134arrow-down15
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minus-squarecorsicanguppy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoCompare this to gasoline. Same engine, right? For cars older than a decade, is it or is it not marginally better than inefficient and toxic gasoline?
minus-squaresilence7OPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·5 months agoThere’s a fair bit of evidence that the ethanol is worse: the carbon intensity of corn ethanol produced under the RFS is no less than gasoline and likely at least 24% higher
Compare this to gasoline. Same engine, right?
For cars older than a decade, is it or is it not marginally better than inefficient and toxic gasoline?
There’s a fair bit of evidence that the ethanol is worse: