This is, and I think, will be changing. Technology moves forward. - Mark
Sent from my Fuel Cell powered iPhone > On May 9, 2021, at 10:18 AM, Peter VanDerWal via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
