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by cpprototypes 3694 days ago
Ethanol is terrible, especially corn produced ethanol. The type of process I'm referring to is this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-diesel

The inputs to this are just energy + water + CO2 = oil. No corn or other plants required. Currently this type of technology is far from cost competitive. But that could potentially change if more was invested into this area.