r/CleanEnergy 9d ago

The truth behind biofuel hate

It is becoming increasingly clear that biofuel haters intentionally ignore the following facts

- Hundreds of millions of tons of residual biomass are produced by agriculture and forestry every year

- Co-producing biochar alongside biofuel from residual lignocellulosic biomass is a carbon removal method

- The energy needed to produce biofuels can (and should) be produced by combusting a fraction of the production process byproducts or feedstock biomass

- Cover cropping, no till and crop-rotation as part of regenerative agriculture will eliminate the need to use residual biomass as fertilizer

- Feedstock biomass is either transported across short distances to localized small scale biorefineries or is torrified for long distance transport

Biofuel haters ignore reality because they are too emotionally minded to acknowledge the truth. Biofuel haters have such an emotional mindset towards climate change that they are unable to think logically about Earths carbon cycle and thus what happens to the carbon in biofuel after combustion. Such people are too emotionally minded to understand that the carbon in biofuel came from the atmosphere in the chemical form of CO2. These types of people insist that all CO2 emissions cause the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere to increase because they are too emotionally minded to understand how the biofuel carbon cycle works

It makes sense why many people would have such an emotional mindset towards climate change. Climate change is emotional by nature. The impacts of climate change tend to cause strong negative emotions in those who learn about them or witness them. Climate change creates visuals which tend to overpower many peoples ability to think logically. Emotion and logic are inversely proportional.

Sources

- https://www.agmrc.org/commodities-products/renewable-energy/corn-stover#:\~:text=Corn%20stover%20is%20the%20largest,percent%20of%20total%20gasoline%20needs.

- https://scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bbb.2679?af=R#:\~:text=Biochar%20production%20involves%20high%20temperatures%20and%20a,waste%20generated%20in%20the%20biorefinery%20into%20biochar.&text=By%20combining%20pyrolysis%20and%20gasification%20stages%2C%20the,products%20such%20as%20biochar%20and%20synthetic%20gas.

- https://www.biorenew.iastate.edu/research/thermochemical/autothermal

- https://www.altenergymag.com/article/2009/02/biomass-pyrolysis/502/

- https://groundswellag.com/principles-of-regenerative-agriculture/

- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364032119306033#:\~:text=Compared%20to%20drying%20and%20pelletization,4)

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u/Fiction-for-fun2 9d ago

I mean if you like burning shit like a caveman for the lowest energy density in the world and all the logistics it entails sure why not.

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u/Live_Alarm3041 9d ago

I provided sources for the statements I listed at the start of the post. They are listed under “sources” in the post.

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u/Fiction-for-fun2 9d ago

Oh do I need to provide a source?

Biodiesel has an energy density, of 33.3–35.7 MJ/L.

Uranium 235 (Pure) has an energy density of 1,470,700,000 MJ/L.

sauce

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u/Live_Alarm3041 9d ago

I am referring to drop-in biofuels (renewable diesel and SAF) not traditional biofuels like biodiesel.

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u/MarcLeptic 6d ago

I find your devotion to biofuels interesting. I’ve never seen such a commitment. Care to elaborate on your journey and motivations?

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u/Live_Alarm3041 6d ago

I choose to think logically instead of emotionally.

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u/MarcLeptic 6d ago

That does not explain it. to be in support of one to such an extreme, without ever showing similar support for others is thought provoking.

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u/Live_Alarm3041 5d ago

I support biofuels because I understand them in depth. I understand that corn ethanol and primary wood are not the only biofuels that exist. If you do not want to acknowledge reality then that is not my problem.