The Problem with Biofuels
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Hand-picked by a BrighterTube curator · found via HackerTube (Karpathy's dataset of videos Hacker News recommends · 82% confidenceExplains why biofuels, especially corn ethanol, return little net energy once farming, processing and land use are counted; Real Engineering sources its energy-return figures carefully.
Real Engineering explains why biofuels, especially corn ethanol, deliver little net energy and carbon benefit.
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