Ethanol: Where It Comes From and Where It’s Going
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Chelsea GreenPosted
Sun 07 Sep 2008 2:21am
With California ramping up its ethanol consumption, we thought now would be a good time to get back to the basics.
What is ethanol? How is it produced? What makes it more efficient than gasoline?
This article, excerpted from The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook: Community Solutions to a Global Crisis by Greg Pahl, explains.
Whether it’s made legally [...]
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How Corn Grown for Ethanol is Killing Our Oceans
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Steven M.Posted
Tue 29 Jul 2008 9:31am
Reasons Why Corn Ethanol is Bad for the Environment!
Biofuels can provide a significant source of renewable energy to reduce dependency on foreign oil and reduce climate change pollution. Since Congress voted to use corn as a biofuel, this decision has turned out to be a big mistake because of increased oil prices and flooding
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USDA: Ethanol from corn yields “substantial” energy
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Dr. Marion NestlePosted
Sun 18 Jul 2010 9:39am
I’m just getting around to reading an optimistic report from USDA about how much more energy we are getting from converting corn to ethanol.
The report surveyed corn growers for the year 2005 and ethanol plants in 2008 and happily reports that energy yields are improving.
Never mind that the mere thought of using food resources to feed cars
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Ethanol in the Tank
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Neal ..Posted
Tue 02 Dec 2008 1:20am
by Richard T. Stuebi
The news seems everywhere these days that ethanol is dead as a doornail:
October 21, Financial Times: "Investors Suffer As U.S. Ethanol Boom Dries Up"
November 5, Bloomberg: "VeraSun Doomed; Goldman Stops Ethanol Stock Coverage"
It's easy to pin the tough times for ethanol on the left-right combination of precipitous
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Ethanol Industry Sues California
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Sean D.Posted
Mon 01 Feb 2010 8:21am
the levels of ethanol in the country’s gas. California has state legislation called the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 calling for car fuels to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The California Air Resources Board counts indirect GHG’s created in the production of ethanol, meaning it will not be part of California’s solution when the plan
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Ethanol Labelled as the Worst Renewable Fuel
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StanPosted
Tue 23 Dec 2008 1:59pm
For the longest time we have been told that ethanol fuel (E85) made from corn or cellulose was the future to replacing our dependance on oil. In fact, the US and Canadian Governments believed it so much, they passed bills to set a certain percentage of corn farming to be designated for E85 biofuel.
It turns out that ethanol is not that great after all
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Ethanol producers hurt by corn binge.....
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Sean B.Posted
Sat 13 Sep 2008 11:53pm
biggest new player on the market, ethanol producers. Coupled with high oil prices, the input used to run the tractors, make the fertilizer and transport the finished corn, ethanol producers are experiencing a bit a of a mini-bust. Fortune Magazine reports that even a big boy, like Cargill, has recently scrapped ethanol plants in construction or planning
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Live Interview: Makers of Kudzu Ethanol (Kudzunol)
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Steven M.Posted
Tue 29 Jul 2008 9:31am
conducted last week, Americans want more ethanol for fuel use,check this out.After all,biofuels is not just about corn.
There is no denying that we have a serious problem... aboutKudzunol, ethanol distilled from kudzu. The interview will be very informative to everyone interested in using ethanol being produced from a non-edible biomass instead of corn
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The Effect of Ethanol on Fruit Flies
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CCLCM Student ..Posted
Thu 23 Oct 2008 2:04pm
out every day. Nothing seemed to help. Finally, one of the lab people stumbled onto the answer. She poured 95% ethanol into a large beaker, and set it on the countertop. Holy cow, those flies were dive-bombing it! Of course, once they hit the ethanol, they'd fall in and drown. As an added bonus, these fruit flies were very nicely preserved, too. I
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