Grilling with charcoal less climate-friendly than grilling with propane
Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 04:35
in Physics & Chemistry
Do biofuels always create smaller carbon footprints than their fossil-fuel competitors? Not necessarily, finds a paper published in Elsevier`s Environmental Impact Assessment Review. The article, `Charcoal versus LPG grilling: a carbon-footprint comparison,` reports that in the UK, the carbon footprint for charcoal grilling is almost three times as large as that for LPG* grilling.