Posts Tagged ‘bioethanol’
“A law taking effect Tuesday makes Missouri just the third state – behind Minnesota and Hawaii – to implement a wide-ranging ethanol mandate.” This article by AP reporter David Lieb reports on new Missouri legislation that mandates the use of ethanol-gasoline mixtures. E10, or 10% ethanol, has already become common on Missouri. The article cites [...]
“Bioethanol – ethanol derived from the fermentation of crops such as maize or sugar – is becoming increasingly available as a ‘green’ and sustainable alternative to gasoline. It is often sold at the fuel pumps as E85 – an 85:15 mixture of ethanol and gasoline. Now, however, Mark Jacobson of Stanford University is calling [...]
This is going up in honor of Blog Action Day, 10/15/2007.
One site that does a lot to make affiliations of “dissenters” clear is the Global Warming Forum. Here we find opinion, commentary, quotes and graphics on many subjects, including:
The article “Limits of Consensus”, from the journal Science, which addresses the issues that [...]
See HIGHLIGHT Health for an excellent discussion of the increased health risks associated with bioethanol as automobile fuel. Walter at HIGHLIGHT Health gives references to several articles and discusses both a predictive model for future air quality and the actual air quality in Brazil, where cars running on 100% ethanol have been around for [...]
With thanks to George L. in St. Louis for the heads up, here is what The Economist has to say (in regard to US corn-ethanol efforts):
“Everyone seems to think that ethanol is a good way to make cars greener. Everyone is wrong”
The article does not dismiss all bioenergy, and it reports on new research and [...]
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