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Corn as a fuel? Sure, just burn it to power your BEV; forget converting it to Ethanol.

Corn ripe for powering my BEV Science magazine has just published an article (Vol. 324 no. 5928, p. 818) and podcast comparing bioelectricity versus bio-ethanol; basically; take biomass such as corn or switch grass and simply burn it to create electricity rather than converting it to ethanol, shipping it to the car and burning it there.

As a result of significantly higher efficiencies inherent in electric vehicles, corn makes more transportation energy as electricity than it does as ethanol!

Listen to the podcast >here<

Posted 05-08-2009 8:14 by MPT
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BAM wrote re: Corn as a fuel? Sure, just burn it to power your BEV; forget converting it to Ethanol.
on 05-09-2009 21:15

How about using fertile fields to produce... food?  In a world with this many starving people, using crops for energy seems almost criminal.

MPT wrote re: Corn as a fuel? Sure, just burn it to power your BEV; forget converting it to Ethanol.
on 05-09-2009 22:39

...Problem is, food doesn't pay... fix that!

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