Re:Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Glo...
by cesarb on Monday November 04, 2019 @11:51AM
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Setting aside that these are not the CO2 emissions from "burning ethanol", do any of these "machines required for harvesting/producing ethanol" require a "non-ethanol fuel", or do they use that fuel for now just because it's convenient, and could be easily replaced by other sources? I know that the power for the refining plants is produced by burning the remainder of the sugar cane plant (which produces so much power that the refining plants sell the remainder electricity), but I don't know which fuel the trucks and tractors currently use.
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Re:Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Glo...
by xyzzyz on Monday November 04, 2019 @03:09PM
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Tractors and trucks currently use diesel, but you could convert them to ethanol if required. Most likely existing ones would just be gradually phased out, and new machines would just run on ethanol.
Re:Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Glo...
by lightedman on Monday November 04, 2019 @02:04PM
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"Setting aside that these are not the CO2 emissions from "burning ethanol", do any of these "machines required for harvesting/producing ethanol" require a "non-ethanol fuel", or do they use that fuel for now just because it's convenient."
You can't set that aside. Consider the whole chain of production and usage or be consigned to a disingenuous selective argument upon the level of quack doctors. Plain and simple.