How the US and Canada Reduced Their Power Sector Emissions: Top Source of Electricity in Each State and Province Since 2005 [OC]
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Just moved to Iowa and am pleasantly surprised by all the wind energy and ethanol-including gas.
it is actually questionable whether ethanol is actually better. it takes a lot of energy to produce and transport. some studies actually have it being worse than gasoline.
Ya you have a 15-30% reduction in fuel mileage to begin with
It does reduce knock though (I don't know what percentage it requires for that). It just couldn't be patented so we drove a few generations of people to unhinged criminality instead.
Yeah but Iowa has hella corn so I think in this instance it probably is.
it is even questionable within corn-producing areas, if memory serves. there are a lot of energy inputs just to grow a crop, then you have the energy of converting it to ethanol.
It’s terribly inefficient, in nearly all respects.
Only thing ethanol benefits non-insignificantly is farming conglomerates.
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I wonder how many other states have super unleaded being cheaper than regular unleaded
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