Brazil is a big success story in this. |
Converting to fuel ethanol will not require a big change in the economy. We are already ethanol ready. If ethanol were available on the supply side, the demand is there. |
Corn is an OK source for ethanol. But if you really want to hit a home run, you need to go to cellulose. |
Corn is an OK source for ethanol. But if you really want to hit a homerun, you need to go to cellulose. |
It is better to use various inputs to grow corn and make ethanol and use that in your cars than it is to use the gasoline and fossil fuels directly. |
It looks to be that you can get just about twice the amount of energy by going the cellulose route, and greenhouse emissions are very small. |
It will either be a wonderful way to access some of the country's best renewable resources or, under cover of environmental rhetoric, foster a whole new generation of dirty plants. No one can say for sure right now how this will go. |
It's really too bad. What we're seeing is sort of the backpedaling that undermines these commitments. |
Making ethanol from corn is a good thing if you want to offset fossil fuels from overseas. On the greenhouse gas side of things, it is not clear if corn, as grown today, is a good thing. We just don't know yet, but it appears to be a mildly good thing. |
The people who are saying ethanol is bad are just plain wrong. |
This is actually a switch we could make very easily and very quickly. |
This is actually one of the cheapest possible transitions you can make. It cuts the cost of fuel by half at the pump. |