Re:Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018)
by lenkite on Thursday December 03, 2020 @03:58PM
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> Growing corn burns fossil fuels
Head-scratching a bit there. Corn absorbs CO2 while growing right ?
From https://www.agweb.com/article/corns-carbon-cowboy-busts-outs...
...At 200 bu. per acre, every acre of corn absorbs 8 tons of carbon dioxide. In 2012, U.S. farmers grew almost 100 million acres of corn and absorbed 800 million tons of carbon dioxide...
Re:Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018)
by ksdale on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:23PM
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Tractors, combines, trucks - there's a lot of heavy equipment that gets used to grow corn, and then there's emissions related to both producing and applying fertilizers.
Head-scratching a bit there. Corn absorbs CO2 while growing right ?
From https://www.agweb.com/article/corns-carbon-cowboy-busts-outs... ...At 200 bu. per acre, every acre of corn absorbs 8 tons of carbon dioxide. In 2012, U.S. farmers grew almost 100 million acres of corn and absorbed 800 million tons of carbon dioxide...