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by Ericson2314 1843 days ago
I think the reason is a lot similar: any time we strip the oxygen from C20 that's carbon capture, and we aught to rebury the stuff.

These biofuels only look good when one forgets we need to put a lot of carbon back into the ground, and the latter is already one of the most expensive parts of the transition.

biofuels for air transport make sense, simply because there might be no alternative, and in conjunction with basically limiting air travel to trans-oceanic routes. But it absolutely doesn't make sense for electricity generation.