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0 pointsdTal6y ago0 comments

Setting aside other issues with it like particulate emission, how can it be anything other than carbon neutral? Where could the surplus carbon possibly come from?

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acidburnNSA6y ago

When biofuels are valuable, people clear forests to make biofuel. The carbon payback period can be up to 1000 years. It's called indirect land use change [1,2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILUC

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofuel#Greenhouse_gas_emissio...

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0 pointsdTal6y ago0 comments

Setting aside other issues with it like particulate emission, how can it be anything other than carbon neutral? Where could the surplus carbon possibly come from?

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acidburnNSA6y ago

When biofuels are valuable, people clear forests to make biofuel. The carbon payback period can be up to 1000 years. It's called indirect land use change [1,2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILUC

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofuel#Greenhouse_gas_emissio...

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