Brazilian president Luis Inácio da Silva, or Lula, was given a media platform by the UK Guardian, one of the most influential newspapers in the country, to put across the arguments for sugar-cane ethanol, alongside other topics (the article...
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Although the science behind this newly found bio-fuel is not fully complete and ready to implement, butanol leaves us with a hope greater than that of ethanol. But what is butanol? When speaking of it as a bio-fuel, it is an alchol based fuel that...
Since it is Memorial Day weekend, I have gone on a trip. I drove for about 200 miles or so on rural roads. Everywhere I look, there is corn just starting to pop up. In fields where there were soybeans last year and the year before, there is...
Ethanol, at one time the savior of America’s energy needs, has a darker side. Production uses approximately 3 gallons of water to create 1 gallon of ethanol. With concerns about local reductions in drinkable and agricultural water (Some...
