Eco-Diary Rescue 5.31
There’s bad ethanol and good ethanol, with the corn-based stuff topping the list when it comes to bad. Or so goes the conventional environmental wisdom. Unfortunately, one of the good ethanols, the one that is fueling a hefty portion of Brazil’s vehicles, has problems, too. But, as Tom Philpott at Grist points out, the sugar-cane crop underpinning that product has a bad history and a not-so-good present. Sugarcane is a deeply ironic crop on which to hang a “sustainable energy revolution.” His
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