My favorite aspect of biofuels is that allows for the machine-energy economy to compete with the human-energy economy. It allows for first world folks to use their buying power to compete with food in the 2nd and 3rd world.

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danny_codes 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What’s extra great about it is that we use fertilizer to grow the biomass to be converted to fuel. And by some measures the energy cost of doing so is higher than just burning the fertilizer (which I’m sure everyone knows is a petroleum product) directly.

Kind of the worst of all worlds sort of technology

	▲	ellenhp 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> some measures EROI for biodiesel is well above 1:1 from what I can tell. Please elaborate on your sources.

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jobs_throwaway 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

markets are good

	▲	undersuit 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yep that's why the US had slave markets instead of central planning. /s