Comments on: Ethanol is not the answer, report says

By: POET Launches New Biz to Power Cellulosic Ethanol Plant With Corn Cobs

POET Launches New Biz to Power Cellulosic Ethanol Plant With Corn Cobs — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:01:36 +0000

[...] corn prices that shot sky high last year and a growing body of research that says corn ethanol won’t make much of a dent in greenhouse gas emissions. Most recently, the EPA has cited an estimate that biofuels only reduce emissions by about 16 [...]

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By: The Reality of Greener Transportation « Earth2Tech

The Reality of Greener Transportation « Earth2Tech — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:02:23 +0000

[...] benefits of biofuels, it’s bound to garner attention even if the cleantech community has long known that first-generation biofuels are not the answer to global climate change. And, combined with a paper deriding the sustainability [...]

By: Will Burning Biomass With Coal Do Any Good? « Earth2Tech

Will Burning Biomass With Coal Do Any Good? « Earth2Tech — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:52:54 +0000

[...] The power plant, and others like it that combine renewable feedstock with coal, present a new dilemma for green contemplation. The all-investment, all-the-time arm of the green movement believe that we should be throwing money at all viable technologies that could reduce greenhouse gases. So, Vinod Khosla invests up and down the line in ethanol companies because he believes the intermediate steps will help us get to the end goal of 2nd and 3rd generation biofuels that are not as bad as corn-based ethanol. [...]

By: From the Evils of Ethanol Department « Earth2Tech

From the Evils of Ethanol Department « Earth2Tech — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:39:15 +0000

[...] No Comments Posted September 10th, 2007 at 11:39 am in Energy We’ve written about how the current corn-based ethanol industry is unsustainable. But we particularly enjoyed reading this rant from Juliette Anthony, [...]

By: Earth2Tech » Blog Archive 6 Signs Cellulosic Ethanol Is Making Progress «

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:41:17 +0000

[...] Fehrenbacher No Comments Posted August 6th, 2007 at 11:41 am in Energy After reading “The Rush to Ethanol” report, we gave ethanol, particularly corn-based ethanol, a pretty hard time. But celluosic [...]

By: Earth2Tech » Blog Archive Ethanol Popping Popcorn Prices? «

Earth2Tech » Blog Archive Ethanol Popping Popcorn Prices? « — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:22:09 +0000

[...] the anti-ethanol report, “The Rush to Ethanol: Not all biofuels are created equal”, last week, which was created by The Network for New Energy Choices, Food and Water Watch, and the Vermont Law [...]

By: Jim Beyer

Jim Beyer — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 06:29:27 +0000

Ethanol doesn't even make sense if you can make it from cellulosic sources (A big if....)

The same biomass can produce twice the fuel (energetically) in the form of methane instead of ethanol (None of that expensive distilling is needed) and the technology can be found at, let's see, your local landfill!

The best way to displace domestic oil use for transportation is developing PHEVs (plug-in hybrid electric vehicles), not biofuel.

By: romunov’s blog et al :: Porn. Oops, I meant Corn :: July :: 2007

romunov’s blog et al :: Porn. Oops, I meant Corn :: July :: 2007 — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:40:51 +0000

[...] on the usability of crops to be converted to biofuel (visit the blog to check the participants). Earth2Tech has a list from one report on why biofuels from corn could not displace the current fuel [...]

By: Katie Fehrenbacher

Katie Fehrenbacher — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:08:29 +0000

Thanks Plete, Always good to hear your thoughts.

By: plete

plete — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:17:52 +0000

This in an important note in your story: # “Corn is the single most subsidized crop in the United States, receiving more than $51 billion between 1995 and 2005.”

Not only is ethanol not an answer to global warming, but it would likely further increase corn subsidies, which give incentive to grow more corn and less of other foods, which is not only bad for the environment (requires a lot of pesticide), but will drive up the prices of other foods due to scarcity.

There is a reason why so many Governor's, like Minnesota's self-proclaimed “most pro-ethanol governor in the country” argues that Minnesota can become the “Saudi Arabia of renewable fuels.”

Ethanol is about $$$$$$