Ethanol being at very best BTU neutral, it is best at taking food out of people's mouth or driving the cost of food up. A few years ago there were actually food riots in Mexico over the cost and availability of corn.
Ethanol can also not be shipped in pipeline. It produces water in a pipeline. That puts even more trucks on the road with hazardous cargo.
I feed my Mustang a steady diet of dinosaur. It seems to have mild indigestion (lower mileage) when I am forced to give it a side of corn....
Ethanol is basically solar power (plants grown in sunlight).
If we harvested all the biomass on the planet and burnt it, with our current rates of energy consumption, we would have enough energy to last about 400 days.
The efficiency of converting solar energy to a usable fuel, via biomass, is pitiful, much better to put solar panels in, which directly convert 40 times, or more, of the solar energy into useful electricity, then charge EVs.
Absolutely. In fact, a 2005 study discovered that the process of harvesting, producing, and transporting ethanol created a net energy loss compared to the ethanol itself. It was a fairly large gap of about 29%. Modern techniques and...
Did the study include the reduced efficiency of an engine running an Ex blend? We’ve had E10 in most of our regular petrol in Canada for many years, and there’s a notable difference when using E0, E5, or E10, for those who have repeatable...
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Ethanol being at very best BTU neutral, it is best at taking food out of people's mouth or driving the cost of food up. A few years ago there were actually food riots in Mexico over the cost and availability of corn.
Ethanol can also not be shipped in pipeline. It produces water in a pipeline. That puts even more trucks on the road with hazardous cargo.
I feed my Mustang a steady diet of dinosaur. It seems to have mild indigestion (lower mileage) when I am forced to give it a side of corn....
Ethanol is basically solar power (plants grown in sunlight).
If we harvested all the biomass on the planet and burnt it, with our current rates of energy consumption, we would have enough energy to last about 400 days.
The efficiency of converting solar energy to a usable fuel, via biomass, is pitiful, much better to put solar panels in, which directly convert 40 times, or more, of the solar energy into useful electricity, then charge EVs.
Absolutely. In fact, a 2005 study discovered that the process of harvesting, producing, and transporting ethanol created a net energy loss compared to the ethanol itself. It was a fairly large gap of about 29%. Modern techniques and...
Read moreDid the study include the reduced efficiency of an engine running an Ex blend? We’ve had E10 in most of our regular petrol in Canada for many years, and there’s a notable difference when using E0, E5, or E10, for those who have repeatable...
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