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You probably release as much CO2 as if you burnt petrol.
Point being the food-plants pulled that CO2 out of the atmosphere last year and now it's going back. The plants that made your petrol (more likely animals that ate the plants etc) pulled the CO2 out of the atmosphere millions of years ago and if we didn't drill it up it would be still stored nicely in the ground.
hoefla-
So that makes petrol as carbon neutral as bioLPG!
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plants that made your petrol (more likely animals that ate the plants etc) pulled the CO2 out of the atmosphere millions of years ago
During the dinosaur age, CO2 in the atmosphere dropped from about 2000ppm (lots, leading to 10-12C higher global mean surface temperature than now) to about 400ppm (about where we are now). I think the implications are clear - the climate change people are trying to avoid can best be avoided by reintroducing dinosaurs 🙂
nick_h.
gbj_tester
How eco-friendly is it to burn bioLPG? It's claimed to be green because it's almost carbon neutral, because it's made of food waste, i.e. dead plants, which absorbed CO2 before they were harvested. But then you release that CO2 when if you burn the fuel. You probably release as much CO2 as if you burnt petrol. So, assuming for a moment that local pollution is not a factor beacause you're not in a city, is bioLPG actually green? What if the food waste was never made into bioLPG...would it have another eco-friendly life as compost? Or would it go to a landfill site and emit methane, which is Bad?