May 8, 2021 10:10 AM, "(-Phil-) via EV" <[email protected]> wrote:
> From what research I've done, I believe BioFuels are a better stop gap than > H2. Perhaps some day this will be true. However, the major 'biofuel' we produce in the USA is ethanol and numerous studies indicates that the way we produce ethanol uses more pertroleum fuel that it offsets. Worse than that, the polution that results from farming and refining ethanol (mostly)stays in this country while the majority of the ethanol is sold to overseas customers. Then there is the fact that growing biofuel uses a lot of land (as well as other resources), if we used ALL of the arable land in the USA to grow biofuel, it wouldn't offset even 1/4 of our petroleum consumption. And of course if we use all of the land to grow fuel, we wouldn't have any food to eat. If we could figure out how to grow fuel without consuming massive amount of petroleum, then it might make sense to grow limited amount of biofuel for those applications that can't be solved with electricity. However, I suspect that long before we solve that problem, there will no longer be applications that can't be solved with electricity, or some other green solution they might come up with. My PGP public key: https://vanderwal.us/evdl_pgp.key _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
