Comments on: Biofuels, fueling SUVs and Hunger. http://bobkismet.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/biofuels-fueling-suvs-and-hunger/ Social Commentary Designed to Melt the Veils of Ignorance Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:36:11 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Splicegraph http://bobkismet.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/biofuels-fueling-suvs-and-hunger/#comment-94 Splicegraph Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:36:11 +0000 http://bobkismet.wordpress.com/?p=30#comment-94 Ethanol is the most promising answer, look at what it has done for Brazil. Although ethanol from corn, & sugarcane is problematic in that it jacks up food prices due to the shortage of produce dedicated farmland. We should look to ethanol from switch grass' such as miscanthus. A process called cellulosic ethanol. Burning ethanol could reduce carbon emissions by 80% and do away with the release of acid-rain causing sulfur dioxide. Shit Henry Ford's Model-T ran on this shit! Forget looking at hydrogen fuel cells for cars, the conversion to such a system would cost the auto industry $illions. New production and distribution systems would need to be put in place, there would be a long and costly switch over period that wouldn't benefit either the consumer or the manufacturer. In Canada we could look to the prairies with fields of non-produce dedicated fields and nothing but grassland. Stewardships could be formed to protect natural habits such as they are, lets face it our hunger for petroleum has polluted every corner of the globe with plastics nothing is natural anymore. Fucking birds on the Galapagos Islands are sporting plastic necklaces and lining their nests with spent condoms. Natural habitats won't mean shit from shinnola if something isn't done to stop climate change. On an interesting note, A Chesapeake Bay marsh grass bacterium, S. degradans has an enzyme that can quickly break down plant materials like old newspaper, into sugar, which can then be converted to biofuel. Ah dead wood into fuel, sweet! reading list: How to Beat the High Cost of Gasoline. Forever!" -By Adam Lashinsky and Nelson D. Schwartz, Fortune. Cellulosic Ethanol: Fuel Of The Future? -Science Daily Ethanol is the most promising answer, look at what it has done for Brazil. Although ethanol from corn, & sugarcane is problematic in that it jacks up food prices due to the shortage of produce dedicated farmland. We should look to ethanol from switch grass’ such as miscanthus. A process called cellulosic ethanol. Burning ethanol could reduce carbon emissions by 80% and do away with the release of acid-rain causing sulfur dioxide.

Shit Henry Ford’s Model-T ran on this shit!

Forget looking at hydrogen fuel cells for cars, the conversion to such a system would cost the auto industry $illions. New production and distribution systems would need to be put in place, there would be a long and costly switch over period that wouldn’t benefit either the consumer or the manufacturer.

In Canada we could look to the prairies with fields of non-produce dedicated fields and nothing but grassland. Stewardships could be formed to protect natural habits such as they are, lets face it our hunger for petroleum has polluted every corner of the globe with plastics nothing is natural anymore. Fucking birds on the Galapagos Islands are sporting plastic necklaces and lining their nests with spent condoms. Natural habitats won’t mean shit from shinnola if something isn’t done to stop climate change.

On an interesting note, A Chesapeake Bay marsh grass bacterium, S. degradans has an enzyme that can quickly break down plant materials like old newspaper, into sugar, which can then be converted to biofuel. Ah dead wood into fuel, sweet!

reading list:
How to Beat the High Cost of Gasoline. Forever!”
-By Adam Lashinsky and Nelson D. Schwartz, Fortune.

Cellulosic Ethanol: Fuel Of The Future?
-Science Daily

]]>