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Overall sounds good. One thing doesn't though: under the "sustainable liquid fuels". By the way, what do you think of when you hear "sustainable liquid fuels"?
by credit_guy 4y ago
Overall sounds good. One thing doesn't though: under the "sustainable liquid fuels".
By the way, what do you think of when you hear "sustainable liquid fuels"? Being on HN, you probably think of the Prometheus startup [1]. Or maybe you've just read about Terraform Industries, yesterday on a top HN page [2].
Well, it looks like the US Government thinks of bioethanol when they think about "sustainable liquid fuels". The telltales are the R&D priorities: "reduce ethanol carbon intensity", and "bioenergy scale up".
And we know how "sustainable" bioethanol is. Here's the thing: right now the US is using 30 million acres to plant corn for bioethanol. It would be a much better usage of land to just plant trees.
[1] https://www.prometheusfuels.com/ https://www.prometheusfuels.com/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34317130 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34317130