What do you think of this idea? I had this image of people going to the petrol pump and taking a swig, but if the boffins can do something useful with all the warehoused unsellable wine it might help in various ways.

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[–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

https://cleantechnica.com/2022/09/13/ethanol-burns-clean-but-creates-more-emissions-than-gasoline/

"When used as a motor fuel, ethanol burns cleaner than gasoline. There is no dispute about that. But there is a dispute about the carbon emissions created in the manufacturing process that makes ethanol from corn. According to recent research by Reuters, ethanol plants in the US produce more than double the harmful emissions, per gallon of fuel production capacity, than the nation’s oil refineries."

It's the amount of CO2 going into the atmosphere that counts, not whether it was converted from sun last week or 400MYA

Burning fuel bad.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago*

    According to recent research by Reuters, ethanol plants in the US produce more than double the harmful emissions, per gallon of fuel production capacity, than the nation’s oil refineries

    Oil and gas have been paying for this anti-ethanol propaganda for over 100 years.

    Reuters is a news service, not researchers.

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