Toyota pours a little cold water on ethanol (video)

[aaronready1]

BS....

[brianninneman]

Water? Ethanol production 'borrows' approx 3 gallons of water for every gallon of ethanol. Most of this water is released back into the atmosphere as steam. A typical 40 million gallon per year ethanol plant uses on a daily basis abou the same amount of water as an 18 hole golf course. By the way, 1 Sunday newspaper requires 280 gallons of water or 1 pound of paper requires 100 gallons of water.

[pontepreta1965]

Ethanol from sugarcane can be made in Florida,Alabama,Lousiana and Texas. All you need is rainwater and u can get up to 3000 gallons per acre. Corn only up to 600 gallons per acre and 3 gallons of water for every gallon of corn ethanol. Also you can make ethanol from switchgrass and anything else. My car in Brazil runs on both gas and pure ethanol. My brother's car also run on natural gas. It's 10% slower but the mileage it gets it's unreal, twice of gasoline... and cheaper...

[Sojaofdapepo]

distill ocean water, with energy from a free source!

[Juliusno1776]

This guy is not telling the truth. Corn for cattle feed and ethanol is DRY LAND corn. You don't use irrigation for feeder corn.

A better way to make all the ethanol we need is feed primary treated waste water to cattails. tinyurl com/56rrda

Only 20 million acres, free water, free fertilizer. Not one acre of prime crop land needed. 150 Billion gallons net as methane and ethanol.

[vmp777777]

Toyota is heavily leveraged toward technologies other than ethanol. Of course they are going to be against it.

The key is to diversify our fuel supply. Ethanol will never replace oil but when you can drive up to a gas station and choose between 5 types of fuel is when competition will force oil prices lower.

[dcat13]

Big oil pays big money to tell big (BS) things about ethanol.

I have a friend in Brazil, his truck and tractor runs on ethanol. He is not in the ethanol production but he makes the fuel from left overs from his farm. He modified his vehicles himself to run almost entirely on ethanol.

[Shultzgti]

I have been holding this idea inside for almost 2 years. The solution to our energy needs is right in front of us and it can be commoditized(Mr. CEO gets a big woody)

When we harvest trees we scrap the needles. If we could harvest the needles from evergreens we would have a good source of alternative energy.

[Shultzgti]

Next time you get an evergreen tree to celebrate the Winter Solstice, burn it when you're done with it. The needles burn up like gasoline, but cleaner. WE do not need to change a thing other than to harvest the needles in the process of harvesting the trees. Then an infrastructure could be setup to extract the oils from those needles to provide a clean burning source of alternative energy.

[Shultzgti]

Thank you for telling the truth to the world! I have been deadset agaisnt ethanol since I first heard of the intention to use it as a fuel for the combustible engine. Hydrogen is not a viable option either. Bring back the electric car! Get the patents from whoever stole it from Americans and allow the people to use it for themselves. FYI: General Motors played a major role in the death of the electric car. Shame on them.

[PaganEgyptian]

No, Oil companies demanded all the EV1 cars to be crushed, not GM. Do research, GM had it right a long time before anyone else. EV1 cars are a threat to big oil, and they stopped GM in their tracks.

[Shultzgti]

Can you provide some source for your claims? There are countless videos of the demise of the electric car all over youtube. Can you point me to a video about how the oil companies took down GM's electric car? You are aware that GM designed and built the Hummer right after the EV1 was scrapped, right? They made the hummer to recover from the loss they suffered due to the EV1 not needing and service or parts. Every time I see a hummer I think, "What a sucker!".

[pontepreta1965]

America have been stealing patents all their life, including the atomic bomb. read my review on ethanol and then you can understand a little better about sugarcane ethanol. have a good day and peace.

[RattlerBK]

@pontepreta1965

I thought ol' Henry Ford first experimented with ethanol in internal combustion engines. Whether he made a patent on anything regarding it, I don't know.

[cheaphardwarez]

$#it! Thats all need!

No really! Grow starchy cat tails in our existing sewer treatment plants and you can produce enough co2 netural fuel for the whole country! NO $#IT!

[segarza]

So is it a capacitor as the name implies? Or an inductor since you said it uses magnatism to store energy? I would imagine it's a large capacitor. Probably many Farads in capacity to perform any useful work moving a vehicle.

[greyflcn]

Something like that.

autobloggreen. com/ 2007/ 03/ 10/ nanotech- strikes- again- university- of- arizona- creates- new- capac

[segarza]

What about the exotic chemical batteries that don't last forever and cost a fortune to replace? Do the chemicals get recycled? Or do they end up in a toxic waste dump?

[greyflcn]

Lithium isn't toxic.

And highly recycable.

It's also highly availible on a geologic scale. (i.e. Not "exotic")

Furthermore, there is a competing technology call an ultracapcitor, which isn't a chemical battery at all.

It stores charge using magnetism, rather than chemical reactions.

[geneus123]

That is not how ultracapacitors work. Look it up.

[greyflcn]

No Ethanol. No Hydrogen.

In 2008 new catalytic converters have made Diesel cars legal in all 50 states.

Diesel Jetta is comprable to a Prius in mileage

However in the longer term, we should go Electric

greyfalcon. net/ electriccars.png

Nice part is, even if we run our cars on Coal electricity, it's still greener than a Prius

(Coal is about 3x worse than Natural Gas)

greyfalcon. net/ electriccars2.png

Whats more, electricity for cars can be bought for as cheap as 1 cent per mile.

[Shultzgti]

"1 cent per mile" Or free with a solar powered home.