Energy Bill and Ethanol
The new energy bill that passed the House has subsidies for ethanol. Ethanol is a renewable energy source made from grain. It can be made in the U.S. from excess corn. Sounds good, right? But ethanol...
View ArticleAn Alcohol Energy Economy?
AEI is touting the potential of alcohol as an automotive fuel to supplement oil. The largest producers of both ethanol and methanol are all in the western hemisphere, with the United States having by...
View ArticleEnergy Return on Energy Investment (Energy Net Yield)
The recent spike in gas prices has people talking about alternative energy again. Here’s a concept I was vaguely aware of: energy return on investment – the ratio of energy outputs to entergy inputs....
View ArticleA Critique of Agricultural Ethanol
Ethanol: A Tragedy in 3 Acts, in Business Week, takes a critical look at the history of using agriculturally-derived ethanol as a fuel adjunct in the U.S. Via Instapundit. Shortly thereafter, in yet...
View ArticleWSJ Calls for Congress to Eliminate Ethanol Tariff
Big discussion over at Slashdot. Editorial here. One irony of the current gas panic is that big oil companies are being pilloried for their profits, but domestic ethanol producers get a pass. Yet the...
View Article“Results 1 – 10 of about 4,370,000 English pages for hubris”?
It’s official: Google is buying YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock. Last week HDNet founder Mark Cuban said that “anyone who buys YouTube is a moron” because of the copyright infringement liability....
View ArticleRolling Stone: “Ethanol Scam: Ethanol Hurts the Environment And Is One of...
Even the pinko liberal Democrat hippies at Rolling Stone* admit ethanol as fuel won’t work and will do more harm than good: This is not just hype — it’s dangerous, delusional bullshit. Ethanol doesn’t...
View ArticleNew Scientist: “Forget biofuels – burn oil and plant forests instead”
From the August issue: The reason is that producing biofuel is not a “green process”. It requires tractors and fertilisers and land, all of which means burning fossil fuels to make “green” fuel. In the...
View ArticleMickey Kaus Catches a Faulty Media Story on Farming
Kaus MSM Rot Watch: Another tomato farmer gives up due to the failure to legalize illegal immigrants! … Oh wait, it’s the same guy, Keith Eckel of Clark’s Summit, PA., who got publicity for the same...
View ArticleTime Magazine, Paul Krugman Admit Biofuels are Snake Oil
Time The Clean Energy Scam: But several new studies show the biofuel boom is doing exactly the opposite of what its proponents intended: it’s dramatically accelerating global warming, imperiling the...
View Article“Undoing America’s Ethanol Mistake”
A U.S. Senator is calling for a freeze in ethanol subsidies rather than continuing on the present course of expanding them through 2022. On December 19, 2007, President Bush signed into law the Energy...
View ArticleEthanol production creates 15% of Iowa’s greenhouse gases
Gas 2.0 – Iowas Ethanol Plants Create 15 Percent of its Emissions: The Des Moines Register reported the other day that Iowas ethanol plants contribute 15 Percent 7.6 million metric tons out of a...
View ArticleDirty money for clean industry
“Only Republicans are corrupt.” – Steve at White’s Creek From The Corner: The current omnibus bill under debate today in the House is large and contains many objectionable items. But the most...
View ArticleLeading biofuels company goes under; Congressmen demand more biofuels
CleanTech Brief – GreenFuel Algae Company Calls It Quits: GreenFuel Technologies, the Harvard-MIT algae company, is ending operations. We are closing doors. We are a victim of the economy, Duncan...
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Biofuels – a vote-buying farm subsidy since 1930
News from 1930: “Germany requires gasoline to be blended with 2.5% alcohol to benefit potato farmers.” There wasn’t any environmental rationalization for Germany’s decision in 1930 to require gasoline...
View ArticleShorter Al Gore: “Corn biofuels were a boondoggle I used for political gain”
No kiddin’: Algore apparently had a “Biden Moment” and unwittingly admitted the truth by accident. …”First generation ethanol I think was a mistake. The energy conversion ratios are at best very...
View ArticleCorn ethanol – bad for the environment and bad for gas mileage
Blighted harvest: The American corn ethanol disaster: Basic chemistry dictates that gallon for gallon, burning ethanol produces only 2/3 as much energy as burning gasoline. In recent years, Americans...
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