Ethanol: What Happens When Two Lobbyists Have a One Night Stand?
BillS
http://www.nextautos.com/stanford-university-study-shows-ethanol-be-wors...
This isn't exactly news. The question is whether Ethanol is just the devil child of the US automotive lobby and the agricultural lobby, or is it one step on a path to a green future?
I seem to remember a series of steps that GM outlined in which Ethanol was a step to mass produced hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. But is there really any hope for hydrogen:
http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11999229
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Is there any hope for hydrogen and ethanol?
Short answer: of course.
Both ideas have major problems in expensive extraction (cellulosic ethanol more than corn), inefficient energy production, and the obstacle of power-station distribution. Hydrogen is a very plentiful element and ethanol is renewable--though E85 is less so. But both forms of energy have long-term promise. Petroleum does not. The benefit of ethanol is that many gasoline engines today can alternate with it; those which don't, as in Brazil, can be modified, as you would a bio-diesel Benz.
The biggest challenger to either of these is electricity, which is gaining in PR and development. The Chevy Volt, the Dodge EV concepts, and the Tesla Roadster are advancing it, and the existing HEVs have done their part to make a foothold in the market. The coal lobby has been doing its part to keep electric as the way to go.
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