They're not talking
about ethanol from corn, however, which has already proved wasteful and environmentally damaging.
Not exact matches
But the problem is that most of the
ethanol we have right now is when it is talked
about it being a first generation biofuel; that is that
ethanol fuel is coming
from the fermentation of sugars
from crops like
corn.
Your colleague Paul Krugman has an excellent piece today
about the fallout
from our nation's rush into
corn - based
ethanol.
The illustrious green movement who killed nuclear power in 1970s and brought
about global warming by scrubbing shade - producing particulates
from smokestacks and tailpipes are now bent on using a ginned up catastrophic climate change scenario to keep the price of oil elevated in order to keep the profit incentive alive for stupid expensive alternatives like windmills and
ethanol from corn.
Almost all of this derives
from corn, with one bushel of
corn yielding
about 2.7 gallons of
ethanol and
about 28 % of the U.S.
corn crop going toward
ethanol production.
The Environmental Working Group's report, «
Ethanol's Broken Promise,» raises serious questions about the claimed environmental benefits of corn - based ethanol, pointing out the millions of acres of grassland and wetlands converted to corn and the annual greenhouse gas emissions stemming from ethanol prod
Ethanol's Broken Promise,» raises serious questions
about the claimed environmental benefits of
corn - based
ethanol, pointing out the millions of acres of grassland and wetlands converted to corn and the annual greenhouse gas emissions stemming from ethanol prod
ethanol, pointing out the millions of acres of grassland and wetlands converted to
corn and the annual greenhouse gas emissions stemming
from ethanol prod
ethanol production:
Craig Mackintosh at Celsias writes
about «the obstinate pushing of
ethanol from corn, sugar, soy, and palm oils in the face of their overwhelming detrimental effect on people's lives, and on the environment.
In addition to concerns
about feedstock limitations,
corn ethanol derives much of its energy
from fossil fuel inputs.»
Oil companies are still skeptical
about conventional
ethanol, especially the type made
from corn, which they say corrodes pipelines and is inefficient... The plant here is just one sign that the big oil companies are now at least grudgingly accepting biofuels.
According to the Daily Climate, the California regulators are prepared to go as far as to declare that biofuels can not help the state fight climate change — could this be the beginning of the end for
ethanol?The Corn Ethanol Question The ethanol industry is obviously worried about the move, and is opposing it — they say cutting off investments in the technology now would prevent them from reaching their fuel efficiency
ethanol?The
Corn Ethanol Question The ethanol industry is obviously worried about the move, and is opposing it — they say cutting off investments in the technology now would prevent them from reaching their fuel efficiency
Ethanol Question The
ethanol industry is obviously worried about the move, and is opposing it — they say cutting off investments in the technology now would prevent them from reaching their fuel efficiency
ethanol industry is obviously worried
about the move, and is opposing it — they say cutting off investments in the technology now would prevent them
from reaching their fuel efficiency goals.