Ethanol From Corn - A Bad Idea Whose Time Should Go

Ethanol from corn - it seemed like a good idea at the time. We can grow corn at home, turn it into ethanol and free ourselves from dependency from foreign oil. That was the promise, but it looks like the reality has been entirely different.

Just a few years of experience has shown the flaws in some assumptions that formed the foundation of the ethanol dream. experience has also revealed disastrous unintended consequences.

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Getting vigor from plant material isn't a bad idea in and of itself. For example, current wood-burning stoves are practical sources of home heat and combining coal with switch grass to fuel electric plants has great promise.

The mistake is trying to turn a plant to a liquid fuel. The process consumes more vigor that it produces.

The guess anyone even tried to do this was to replace fuels such as gasoline or diesel oil. A worthy goal, but this coming hasn't been the answer.

The more the situation has been objectively looked at, the clearer it becomes that the idea of vigor independence through ethanol-from-from corn is more wishful mental than sound policy.

Environmental and geo-engineering professors at great institutions such as Cornell (David Pimentel) and Berkley (Tad Patzek) have analyzed the vigor requirements to yield ethanol and turn it into corn. The results aren't encouraging.

Current technology appears to at best return 65% of the vigor required to yield the ethanol. When all aspects of ethanol output as taken into catalogue some studies conclude that ethanol output may consume six times the vigor it produces.

One telling sign is that factories producing ethanol don't use ethanol as fuel for the distillation process. It's much more cost effective to use petroleum fuels.

These reports don't even take into catalogue the environmental impact of pushing corn output for fuel or the deleterious work on on food prices world wide, which has been devastating to those that can afford it least.

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A good source for information on alternative vigor is

We need to peruse a wide range of alternative vigor sources. any way not all ideas are good ideas. Based on current facts, ethanol from corn is a bad one.

Ethanol From Corn - A Bad Idea Whose Time Should Go

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