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Originally Posted by MonaroSS
Use of plant sourced ethanol and bio-diesel does not add net CO2 to the atmospheric environment so long as the plant source from which it was derived is continually regrown and harvested. This is because the regrowing of the exact amount of crop as was used to make the utilised plant sourced fuel draws the exact same quantity of CO2 from the atmosphere via photosynthesis as was added to the atmosphere by burning the aforesaid plant sourced fuel, aka the ethanol and/or bio-diesel.
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Good point. What say you on the "new"-ish Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis operations in QLD (that's the coal to diesel among other things, not the biomass version)? I bought up this process because it was mainly under consideration for generating diesel for farming machinery (though with the growing interest and demand for diesel passenger cars this is no longer really the case). Considering the likely use of these fuels (planting and harvesting crops) one can also credit further compensation, for the associated production industry, of the "critical" atmospheric CO2 imbalance. Lets not even start on the effect that biofuel and ethonol production have on harvestable land. ....I could go on all night but I'm afraid I'll get to the point
Oh and I'm a
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