Chocolate fuels a carbon-negative voyage from England to Timbuktu

Christian Science Monitor ^ | December 21, 2007 | Irene Caselli

[Lorianne]

London - While others eat their way through advent calendars this Christmas season, two Britons are doing something quite different with their chocolate: using it to drive across the Sahara.

More precisely, Andy Pag and John Grimshaw are fueling a 4,473-mile journey from Poole, England, to Timbuktu, Mali, using 3 tons of discarded chocolate converted into 396 gallons of fuel.

[Paladin2]

And this is carbon negative because?

[lepton]

How is that carbon-negative? Carbon-negative would be burying the chocolate in a landfill.

[Paladin2]

"....As well as emitting fewer greenhouse gases, biodiesel burns more efficiently and so releases fewer harmful pollutants than conventional diesel...."

"Fewer" is not the same as less than zero. What a load of rubbish.

[okie01]

I'm sure you've got a special place in hell for Andy Pag and John Grimshaw...

[Paladin2]

Not so fast .... they claim that burying it will just let it turn into methane eventually. Perhaps they believe that burning it sooner and making CO2 is better than the eventual release of the more absorptive methane. Still rubbish.

[tet68]

Discarded chocolate?
Isn’t that an oxymoron?

[coconutt2000]

3 tons of discarded chocolate

Who discards 3 tons of chocolate?

[Lorianne]

More like heresy.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“That means that we will actually be saving emissions that would be in the atmosphere if we’d stayed at home,” says Mr. Pag...”

WTF? LOL! Thanks for the ping.

[giotto]

More like heresy.

It's spelled Hershey.

[steelyourfaith]

~~AGW ™ ping~~