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by kraussvonespy 5y ago
Wow, I didn't know that. If that's the case then Krebs is far beyond what 99% of large news outlets, magazines and other news sources bother to do. I was on the fence before about this but if that's the case, I'm fully o
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by kraussvonespy 5y ago
The press across the board does a terrible job of printing retractions. I know that doesn't really excuse Krebs but most errors don't get corrected and those that do generally show up in a tiny column in the middle of the paper. I
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by kraussvonespy 6y ago
Even this wouldn't be enough bandwidth for my clueless wifi users who complain when speedtests on their smartphone show 70mbps. "Is there enough bandwidth to do what you need to do? Yes? Then shut up."
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by kraussvonespy 6y ago
For the record, I just found a reference that states that ~40% of corn grown in the US gets turned into ethanol. 40%. We consume somewhere between a half a gallon and a full gallon of petroleum (between fuel for the machines, production of
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by kraussvonespy 6y ago
There are always people from the Union of Bought and Paid-for Scientists that will gladly give up on science for a well-paid gig at some bullshit think tank. Somewhere around 3% if we use climate-change numbers.
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by kraussvonespy 6y ago
If you peel back all of the propaganda, no, there's no legitimate reason to produce ethanol. It's just a way to continue to feed money into the farming-industrial complex (farmers, chemical companies, implement companies, seed com
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by kraussvonespy 6y ago
In my area of the US, a good percentage of the majority crop (corn) goes to produce alcohol to burn as fuel. So we pour poisons and fertilizer on the land and burn huge amounts of petroleum to produce a seriously inefficient crop to supplem