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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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