US might have been wrong about Ethanol
Study show US could have been wrong with implementing ethanol to reduce emissions and could have had opposite effects. Link
Forum Discussion
thomasmnile wrote:
Sugar beets? What about sugar beets? When attending my nephew's college graduation from University of North Dakota, on the trip from Fargo to Grand Forks along I-29, acres and acres of land dedicated to growing sugar beets. Saw many truckloads of sugar beets on the interstate. Also saw a.....is it a refinery or distillery when they're producing ethanol? I recall the odor emanating from that plant was, shall we say, memorable?
In their current state, biofuels are by and large an environmentally a loser. Plantstuffs for biofuels cannot be grown organically, and the amount of energy it takes to refine biofuels compared to the actual energy yield is not optimal. The incremental reduction in carbon emissions that biofuels provide is not worth the environmental impact to the land they cause. JHO....
