Gary beat me to it. Yes, food to fuel seems like a poor approach. But sewage + seawater + sunshine to sugar via algae, then to alcohol via yeast, that’s a biofuel too. (With several ancillary benefits to humans and environment).https://twitter.com/garycdavison/status/1094452337844908038 …
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Replying to @JohnBarnesSF
I'm totally fine with biofuels, and against corn ethanol as a fuel (because it's inefficient), but why exactly is "sun -> X -> fuel" good, but "sun -> food -> fuel" bad? (srs question)
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Replying to @MorlockP
In theory it doesn’t have to be if everyone is getting enough of an adequate diet. In practice most of the other food to fuel stuff has turned out to be comparably inefficient to corn—>ethanol. So it’s just not a very good bin to look in
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Replying to @JohnBarnesSF
OK. So am I correct in restarting your position as "pathways which do not use the same limited resources as food [ e.g. high quality crop land ] are better, because they do not create market rivalries for food (and thus do not raise the price of food)" ? Because that's my pos.
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"restating" sigh
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