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Ethanol: Our Answer to Reducing U.S. Dependence on Foreign Oil [view article]
Mr. Plaehn, you are changing the subject. But, since you asked, I do pay attention to gas mileage. Brazilian's know the difference in fuel economy between pure ethanol and (blended) gasoline, and make their fuel-purchasing decisions accordingly. If you are suggesting that "people mostly just care how much it costs to fill up", and don't notice that they are filling up more often, then you must have a very cynical view of the intelligence of American drivers.I repeat: what matters is energy, not volume. If cars could be modified to run on a mixture of gasoline mixed with 2% water (with a corresponding loss in gas mileage per gallon), would you trumpet water as contributing to reducing dependence on oil?
Cars can also run on blends of gasoline and methanol. But methanol has only half the BTUs of gasoline, instead of ethanol's two-thirds. So if an equal volume of methanol as ethanol were being used, would you consider their contributions the same? Reply
Ethanol: Our Answer to Reducing U.S. Dependence on Foreign Oil [view article]
Mr. Eye. When you put gas in your car do you figure the energy equivalent basis or just gallons and price? People mostly just care how much it costs to fill up and if they are filling with U.S. produced fuel at a lower price they feel pretty good about it. ReplyEthanol: Our Answer to Reducing U.S. Dependence on Foreign Oil [view article]
So, Tim, you mean 10% on a volumetric basis. If so, you should say so when you refer to the number. Ten percent on a volumetric basis is not as impressive as on an energy-equivalent basis. What matters is how much transport is provided, not how full the tanks are filled. ReplyEthanol: Our Answer to Reducing U.S. Dependence on Foreign Oil [view article]
My bad, although it took 30 comments before someone pointed it out. Annual gas consumption should be 140 Billion gallons. I have also read 180 billion gallons, but I took the number from the last source I was using.For all of you sugar fans, did you read U.S. Sugar gave all of their Florida sugar land back to the U.S. government to stop the destruction of the Everglades.
Using E-blends greater than 10% voids a new car warranty. After the warranty period it does not make a difference. How many diesel pickup owners run biodiesel in their trucks (against warranty)? Google it sometime.
Mr Eye: At current total production of 9 billion gallons per year every gallon is being bought immediately and ethanol imports from Brazil are growing rapidly and will exceed 700 million gallons for 2008. And 10% is 10%. No equivalent anything. 10 gallons of ethanol + 90 gallons of gasoline. Coming to every gas station near you! Reply
Ethanol: Our Answer to Reducing U.S. Dependence on Foreign Oil [view article]
Don't live, cause you're going to die! ReplyEthanol: Our Answer to Reducing U.S. Dependence on Foreign Oil [view article]
Corn Ethanol=higher food prices, NO2, destruction of water tables(Nitrogen Fertilizers) and burning to death.Ethanol fires require specialty chemicals not found at 99% of Fire Departments. Don't remember where I read this.
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Ethanol: Our Answer to Reducing U.S. Dependence on Foreign Oil [view article]
GM 's sudden stewardship of the environment is simply a way to continue to make gas guzzlers thanks to E85 an extremely inefficient fuel. The CAFE standards call for all car companies to achieve an average MPG for all vehicles. I believe the most recent number is 27 MPG. Well if you make the biggest money off of 10 miles per gallon SUV's you would hate to say good bye to them wouldn't you?The CAFE standards has a loophole, that being that an E85 vehicle operating on E85 miles per gallon are ONLY figured against the actual amount of gasoline in the blend (15%) if you divide 100% fuel by 15% gasoline you get the multiplier to the mpg (666) therefore a gas guzzling 10 MPG SUV is given credit for 66.6 MPG. If you sell one SUV like this you can have 5 vehicles only achieving 20 MPG and this gas guzzling SUV and you average more than 27 MPG overall while not one of their vehicles really met the standard.
GM is not the only one taking advantage of this free ride Ford and Chrysler are too. The big three are heading down the toilet and this is just their hands clinging to the rim. Reply
khead
Ethanol: Our Answer to Reducing U.S. Dependence on Foreign Oil [view article]
Somewhere Ricardo is laughing his a** off. there are to many unforeseen variables with corn based ethanol. My biggest concern is how much larger this will make the deadzone grow. It will make New Orleans more vulnerable to huricanes, species will die out, fisherman will lose jobs, fertilizer will continue to increase in price which we will pay for everytime we go to the grocery store, there is less incentive for automakers to improve their product, it is not effecient, food riots will continue around the world, as a direct consequence of our desire to burn food, etc. Don't be fooled by the auto industry, ag industry, big oil, and all the other sectors that have a horse in this race. There is no magic bullet, but there is a good cocktail for this problem which includes solar, drilling, wind, nuclear, hydro and geothermal. Growing corn, as glamorous as it sounds, should play little or no role in the solution. ReplyEthanol: Our Answer to Reducing U.S. Dependence on Foreign Oil [view article]
Tim writes that "By the end of 2009 ethanol producers will be producing enough ethanol to replace 10% of the 140 million gallons of gasoline consumed in the U.S. each year." Given a generous thermal equivalent of 1 gallon of ethanol equalling 0.75 gallons of gasoline (the actual thermal-equivalent is more like 0.67), that would imply a rate of use (production plus imports) of 19 billion gallons per year by the end of 2009.You really believe that, Tim? Reply
khead
Ethanol: Our Answer to Reducing U.S. Dependence on Foreign Oil [view article]
Ethanol made from corn is a poor idea overall. There is no excuse for it. Growing this much corn will do severe damage to the ecology of the Gulf of Mexico and creates a massive dead zone. The whole concept of improving the fuel instead of improving the engine is laughable. Corn based ethanol is way to keep consumers hooked on oil, not reduce dependance. ReplyEthanol: Our Answer to Reducing U.S. Dependence on Foreign Oil [view article]
Tim - if we burn (consume) 140 million gallons of gasoline each year (your number), where's the 21 million barrels/d of crude going??If your number is correct at 140 million gallons/yr, and we use my biofuel injected burner with waste heat recovery capturing 90% of the energy and making it useful, then we need only 50 million gallons of biofuel per year.
You say POET is already producing 1000 million (that's 1 billion) gallons of ethanol a year (your number) - where's all of it going? Some of your numbers are not adding up.
However, whichever you arrive at, I only need 1/3 as many gallons with my no-moving-parts/no-tra... biofuel-injected-burner with waste heat-to-electric devices, an electric motor and a grass tank with fueling stations where they are today. Goodbye drillers and diggers. Come-on growers. Reply
Ethanol: Our Answer to Reducing U.S. Dependence on Foreign Oil [view article]
Chubbs, agree.. Brazil is having great success with sugar cane ethanol... if we had the humility to bury the hatchet we could normalize relations with Cuba and have more cheap sugar cane than we would ever need to power our vehicles until even better solutions were developed. But that would anger the "you know who" party, who would much prefer that we just keep pumping our money to their pals in all the world's friendly garden spots. ReplyEthanol: Our Answer to Reducing U.S. Dependence on Foreign Oil [view article]
What? Jack34? Thot it was user246123. Above point is yours re. ALGAE! ReplyEthanol: Our Answer to Reducing U.S. Dependence on Foreign Oil [view article]
user246162: Amen!Algae is a good grow method.
So call it a GROW TANK instead of a GRASS TANK. Reply
Ethanol: Our Answer to Reducing U.S. Dependence on Foreign Oil [view article]
tylakewalker,Thanks for the botany toxonomy caviat, but it's completely irrelevant to the conversation (unless you were trying to inject humor, in that case: lol?). In case you were actually serious, mixed prarie grasses are not traded on the NYMEX, corn is, and that is one of MANY significant differences between the two. Take a look at the links I provided. Reply