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		tbrownaw 8 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Proposed NOAA Budget Kills Program Designed to Pre... Would something like mandating a significant amount of ethanol (from corn) in gasoline be an effective way to so this?

tomrod 8 days ago [–]

No.

Subsidizing production of next gen/green energy production and grid operations, yes.

DamonHD 8 days ago | [–]

By about 30x to 100x per acre (PV vs ethanol)...

https://www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.1073/pnas.2501605122

tomrod 8 days ago | | [–]

Hear hear.

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