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mbreese on Nov 24, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nobel Prize winning biochemist says all biofuels a...

It does matter when it comes to CO2 fixation though... if you only get 0.1% efficiency in fixing CO2 with biofuel production, but would get 1% with normal forestation, then there is a quantifiable difference.

raverbashing on Nov 24, 2012 [–]

But suddenly when it's the oil industry that uses vasts swathes of forest and arable land then it's ok and it's free http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/campaigns/Energy/tarsand...

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