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FearlessCloud01 t1_j10i8gy wrote

Reply to comment by Phoenix5869 in Pilot plant making gasoline using wind power has just opened in Chile | The Haru Oni plant will scale up from 34,000 gallons to 14.5 million gallons by 2024. by chrisdh79

I guess it's better than using more fossil fuel to power the plant...

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Phoenix5869 t1_j10iky2 wrote

But wont this just add more emissions to the atmosphere?

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FearlessCloud01 t1_j10jzsd wrote

It will. But using power from a wind turbine is still better than a gas/coal plant.

The gas would probably be extracted either way. And that requires power. But it'll be worse if the required power comes from more gas instead of wind or something else that's non-polluting.

This way, at least the overall emissions is reduced. So, for example, if the total emissions had 10-20% due to the gas used to create the electricity/power for the processing, at least there will a 10-20% reduction in the total emissions.

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