▲ 129 ▼ The 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 better (newrepublic.com) submitted 2 years ago by silence7@slrpnk.net [M] to c/climate@slrpnk.net 18 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) 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? permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] silence7@slrpnk.net [S] 6 points 2 years ago There'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 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net [S] 6 points 2 years ago There'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 permalink fedilink source parent