Ethanol Bad! (No kidding...)

[helwen]

Results are in, Ethanol would have a worse impact on the environment than gasoline.

"...could result in nearly twice the greenhouse gas emissions as the gasoline it would replace because of expected land-use changes, researchers concluded Thursday"

The ethanol industry disagrees, of course...

[EDIT] I should exclude ethanol from disposed waste (biodiesel type stuff), since that doesn't involve agricultural land -- could be useful in the cities. In the country, we compost all plant materials, and I don't know about the safety or efficiency of using the rest of the trash. We just try to not have trash (working on that still).

Comments

Heck!

[bytchearse.livejournal.com]

Making maple syrup is a more efficient process (with a higher yield!) than the ethanol process :-(

Eat corn, don't burn it!

Re: Heck!

[helwen.livejournal.com]

Making maple syrup is a more efficient process (with a higher yield!) than the ethanol process :-(

Plus we don't have to cut down the trees and plant new ones every year. Just got a more efficient evaporator year before last here -- smaller than the old one but produces more, using less fuel.

And yeah, I'd rather eat the corn than burn it!

Re: Heck!

[bytchearse.livejournal.com]

Overuse of corn is a personal bugaboo of mine. Corn syrup and dextrose is nearly undigestible, and the use of same in the early 80's "coincided" with a hundreds percent spike in type 2 diabetes. Funny too that "maltodextrin" is the main componet in artificial sweeteners