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World's first commercial e-fuel plant opens, producing diesel from green hydrogen — backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos (www.hydrogeninsight.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So is e-fuel just putting less CO2 into the air when it's burned?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

No, it usually has 70% to 90% less CO2 emissions compared to fossil based fuel, because there are CO2 emitters in the supply chain: Transportation, heating, food for workers, etc. This is the same reason renewable energy has a small CO2 footprint as well. However for e-fuels you need about 6 times as much energy to go the same distance with an electric vehicle. So you have to build 6 as many renewables (only then do e-fuels make sense) compared to electric cars.