biofuel waste
Save Our Corn: M-J’s September 2009 Update
September 10, 2009 at 7:08 am PDRTJS_settings_32953_post_2749 = { “id” : “32953″, “unique_id” : “wp-post-2749″, “title” : “Save+Our+Corn%3A+M-J%27s+September+2009+Update”, “item_id” : “_post_2749″, “permalink” : “http%3A%2F%2Fmjrepublic.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F09%2F10%2Fsave-our-corn-2%2F” } To produce one gallon of ethanol, fifty gallons of water must be used. How exactly is this “helping the planet”, especially since auto-emissions from ethanol are equal to those of [...]
Save Our Corn: M-J’s September 2009 Update
To produce one gallon of ethanol, fifty gallons of water must be used. How exactly is this “helping the planet”, especially since auto-emissions from ethanol are equal to those of regular gasoline (petrol)? And the ethanol craze has caused the price of corn (maize) to go sky-high. Derivatives of corn permeate the food-supply, thus its [...]
Our Huddled Masses of Oil, Yearning to Break Free
Our Huddled Masses of Oil, Yearning to Break Free It takes fifty gallons of water to produce one gallon of ethanol. How wasteful. Sir Richard Branson’s bio-fueled flight of two hours required the oil of 150,000 coconuts.Think of all the poor people who could survive on 150,000 coconuts. For a two-hour flight, that’s dreadfully wasteful. [...]
Our Huddled Masses of Oil, Yearning to Break Free
Our Huddled Masses of Oil, Yearning to Break Free It takes fifty gallons of water to produce one gallon of ethanol. How wasteful. Sir Richard Branson’s bio-fueled flight of two hours required the oil of 150,000 coconuts.Think of all the poor people who could survive on 150,000 coconuts. For a two-hour flight, that’s dreadfully wasteful. [...]
