Grilling with charcoal less climate-friendly than grilling with propane
Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 20:14
in Physics & Chemistry
Do biofuels always create smaller carbon footprints than their fossil-fuel competitors? Not necessarily, finds a paper published today 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. (Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), often referred to as propane, is a mixture of mostly propane and butane)...