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Re:The electric car as a talisman of false hope by acidburnNSA on Friday August 16, 2019 @09:03AM (#20714731)
This is a common but incorrect assumption. Biofuels are very far from carbon neutral. Renewable is in no way restricted to the desirable.

As an extreme case in point, wood in particular is a horrifying energy source due to health detriment from particulates.

Have a look at some data:

https://partofthething.com/thoughts/wp-content/uploads/ipcc-...

Source: Schlomer S., et.al., 2014: Annex III: Technology-specific cost and performance parameters. In: Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group III to the 5th Assessment Report of the IPCC

https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5...

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Re:The electric car as a talisman of false hope by dTal on Saturday August 17, 2019 @02:41PM (#20725539)
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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Re:The electric car as a talisman of false hope by acidburnNSA on Thursday August 22, 2019 @10:51AM (#20768715)
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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