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M4C @ CliDemy Welcome to a Minute for Climate section at CliDemy. Spend just a minute per day and learn something valuable about climate tech and climate action. Each post here is curated such that it you can finish reading it within a minute.

Do biofuels emit CO2?

You might have heard of biofuels – these are typically liquid fuels like ethanol or biodiesel that can partially or fully replace fossil transport fuels such as gasoline or diesel. World over, many vehicles are encouraged to run on biofuels. But biofuels are hydrocarbons too. When any hydrocarbon burns, it emits CO2. And so do biofuels, in amounts comparable to […]

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M4C @ CliDemy Welcome to a Minute for Climate section at CliDemy. Spend just a minute per day and learn something valuable about climate tech and climate action. Each post here is curated such that it you can finish reading it within a minute.

A whale is worth 33 tons of CO2

Whales have massive bodies. And massive bodies store massive amounts of CO2. An adult whale could weigh a bit more than 100 tons – about the same as the maximum takeoff weight of a Boeing 720. Imagine that. More importantly for climate, an adult whale could sequester up to 33 tons of CO2 in its body. And when the whale […]