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Fuel ethanol. Big investor driven industry which managed to get mandates for production in more or less all fuel for personal transport. Production of which i
by colechristensen 2y ago
Fuel ethanol. Big investor driven industry which managed to get mandates for production in more or less all fuel for personal transport. Production of which is at best energy neutral while at the same time diverting a significant portion of the best land towards nonsense non-energy-production. They know full well that the energy budget for inputs vs outputs is awful, but it's a profitable venture, particularly with high and rising oil prices.
There are plenty of other examples of "greenwashing", but ethanol is perhaps the worst offender in the US.
- alan-hn 2y agoThat's because they have the backing of the agricultural industrial complex. They need to do something with all that corn. Same thing with high fructose corn syrup
- teslabox 2y agoBoiling corn in an alkaline solution breaks down the fiber and allows the niacin contained to be used by humans. Native Americans knew to boil their corn in wood ash, but Christopher Columbus didn't realize this was important. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtamalization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtamalization