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Old 01-24-2014, 04:08 AM   #18 (permalink)
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The carbon needs to go full circle. If we have to store it, that would be to compensate for burning fossil fuel, not biofuel.
It is a matter of efficiency too; this technology promises to be much more efficient than turning glucose into ethanol to burn it in an ICE. So we'd need less glucose for the same power.
We may not need the edible part of food crops for glucose fuel production, as I pointed out earlier.

At some point in time there will be no more abundance of fossil fuel. Something needs to change or at that time we will not be able to drive anywhere.
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