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Originally Posted by rmay635703
The trouble with the “barely” aspect is that we ignore all the cofactors from ethanol production that get sold or used by other industries
These cofactors that are a side effect of ethanol production would also require energy and associated pollution to produce but are usually normalized into the calculation as if we are only making ethanol.
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Same problem in Brazil when people believe that sugarcane is always better as a feedstock, even though corn-based ethanol is far from being the evil depicted by the mainstream media and sugarcane lobby. Folks here look only at ethanol volume per hectare, which is more favorable to sugarcane, but it doesn't serve as a feedstock for other supplies so effectively as corn does. Maybe if leftovers from grains-based ethanol brewing served as a feedstock for bio-CNG as it has been implemented by a whisky distillery in Scotland, Brazilians would become more favorable to grain-based ethanol considering the total amount of fuel produced, yet it wouldn't make as much sense as using distillery leftovers to feed livestock.