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danny_codes 13 hours ago

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.