ethanol

Here in Australia we've had E10 fuel for quite a while (E10 means 10% Ethanol), as a cheaper alternative to plain unleaded. But I've noticed that the price difference has been getting smaller over time. Filling up my old Mazda this morning, I noticed that the price difference (at least in my...

Al Gore's Ethanol Epiphany Better late than never I suppose.

I just noticed this study the CBO published this month. We all know that ethanol production is subsidized, but this is the first time the CBO actually estimated what that subsidy is per gallon of ethanol. The result? Every gallon of ethanol receives $1.78 in government subsidies. Ethanol from...

At least one farmer in tennessee is making "moonshine" from kudsu and is selling the ethanol as fuel. He's able to sell as much as he makes and its going into engines not stomachs. Hopefully this will catch on and make a few farmers rich.

This is one I actually believe in, and is exemplified by recent radio ads from this bunch of liars; http://www.renewablefuelsnow.org/ They lie about every major point about corn ethanol and its impact upon global hunger. They are well funded, have supplied substantial donations to those in...

I read that ethanol was the original fuel for automobiles. And that prohibition, and the need for higher octane fuels, led to it being replaced by gasoline. "There's enough alcohol in one year's yeild of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for one...

If you check the comments under any news story or any blog post about alternative fuel cars and/or hybrids, you see the same debate format. Poster 1: "Our problems won't be solved until we convert to (insert alternative fuel here)!" Poster 2: "Wrong! That technology will never be viable due...

I just found this interesting article on Cnet's news.com (copy&paste begins here since I can't post links) "Ethanol from coal? If it works, it could solve three major problems for the energy industry. Researchers at Louisiana State University, along with colleagues from Clemson University and...

In the politics thread, I was revisiting some work I had done on ethanol. I did a very detailed technical study to effectively wind up refuting a sound byte. It was so hard for a technically trained person to wade through all the studies and data to come to a conclusion, what chance did a lay...

...that the ONLY thing that is true regarding what you hear about ethanol, is that ethanol comes from corn (and other stuff..so don't bring that up, as that is not anything to do with the post). University of Minnesota study of ethanol says that it takes as much fossil fuel to produce ethanol...

I have just read a series of articles in Chemistry and Engineering News, (Vol. 83, no. 37, 12.9.2005) that questioned the role of ethanol as an alternative fuel. Ethanol is produced from corn, which requires much energy to grow, harvest, and ferment, resulting a serious expenditure of energy...

I just read this article in the SF Chronicle. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/06/27/MNG1VDF6EM1.DTL I would like to hear a discussion about the efficiency of ethanol as a fuel source. I was a little surprised when the article did not mention that during the production of...

I recently read a nationally syndicated newspaper editorial where the columnist said that ethanol plants are government subsidized. (Really?) He said that anything that needs government subsidy to make it work, is not worth having if it can't make it on it's own merit. Well, around my neck of...