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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-b
by lenkite 6y ago
> 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-outstanding-yields 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...
- ksdale 6y agoTractors, 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.
- njarboe 6y agoThere's the old quip that corn is just one small step in the chain of converting oil into something people can eat.