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.

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