Posts Tagged ‘corn’

Since gasoline prices are going to crush the American economy, what would the best alternative fuel source? Hydrogen’s pretty cheap, you’d just get like 5 miles to the gallon. Ethanol would be a NO. That’d just lead to massive corn famines and government regulation on how much gas we could use (or else), which would be communism. Nuclear power would be very effective, but there’s always evil people who would harvest the materials for bombs. I heard fuel cells were very efficient and effective. What’s your opinion?

Since we are making some new alternative fuels like ethanol, which is made from corn, and some car companies are making cars that can run on water, do you think it’s possible to take grease, something we have so much of, and turn it into an alternative fuel?

There is this lady on Yahoo Answers that is against using ethenol as an alternative fuel because she says producing a maximum yield of corn, without allowing the fields to go fallow, will ruin the soil for other crops. Corn is naturally hard on soil as it is, so constant production of corn in one place will drain all of the naturally occurring nutrients in the soil. How true is this?

sugarcane? corn? solar?
in terms of take least amount of energy and can be used efficiently as an alternative energy source

Brazil has been growing and converting sugarcane for over 20 years now. The energy produced from the sugarcane is 7 times greater than that of corn.

Maybe it’s our climate? Brazil and Hawaii are both humid but so is a lot of states. Thoughts?

Corn is not the answer because of the cost. Would hemp work?
Does that mean that no crop could become an alternative fuel?

I am curious of why corn is used to make ethanol, whereas other foods are not. Could someone please explain this to me?

Has anyone seen the news broadcast about the massive tons of Algae floating in Chinese waters, and how many volunteers are helping to remove it, for the Summer Olympics in Beijing?
I wonder if any of this could be used to develop alternative fuels in addition to ethanol-based gasoline. Some countries are already using sugar-based ethanols and corn-based fuel. Why not this Algae, there is a huge surplus of it?

Is it theoretically and chemically possible?

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