02-03-2006, 05:35 AM
Curt Dogg,Feb 2 2006, 09:37 PM Wrote:What I'm thinking here is the poster is saying that we spend more energy in the production of ethanol while taking out the energy that the sun puts into the equation. Ie, we use more petroleum, electricity, ect energy than we get out of the process.Plant more corn, less dope, problem solved, eh? :w00t:
Here is a little food for thought.....
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2006-...l-sidebar_x.htm
I'm not saying that this is the absolute truth, but I believe that ethanol has the potential to help.
As someone who is at the ground level for one products the ethanol is currently produced from, corn, I think that the improving efficiencies of ethanol production are very encouraging. But, then the question of using a foodstuff as a fuel when there are large numbers of hungry people in the world comes into play, and that is a whole other can o' worms.
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In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete