• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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    My money is that someone will start pitching it as a green alternative. Dry / powered soaps are hot again because you’re not shipping and storing a bunch of water.

    If coke was smart, they would’ve put this green and brown tube, and called it “Juice, by Ecofruit”

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      Energy wise it’s a wash whether it’s concentrated or not. Concentrated requires reducing it which is just boiling it down (under a vacuum apparently to reduce temps needed), and then freezing during transportation. Non-concentrated weighs more so more energy for transportation and more packaging, and still needs cooling. So they come out comparable afaik.

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        I don’t believe that. On electric vehicles, 90% of the energy is used to move the thing. A charged EV battery can power a standard household worth of appliances for two days.

        Furthermore, the energy expenditure to dehydrate the concentrate is a one-time b cost, whereas transportation cost increases with distance.

        What I DO believe is that manufacturers see transportation as less of a cost, because they offload it to distribution networks.

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          Do you have any idea how much energy is needed to boil something down? It’s a shit ton.

          As for distance, you know they can do the calculations for a country right?

          This is not a calculation by the manufacturer. You’re weaving around everything.