Better Than Ethanol? BTL in plug-in hybrid diesel vehicles

Ethanol is terrible anyways. At least in america. Diesel is a better solution. The only reason it's more expensive at the pump is because refineries don't produce that much of it. Unleaded fuel is just retarded over all. It costs more to make and it's low performance with bad torque and bad gas mileage. One of my freinds has a 1993 VW Jetta that's deisel and it gets 56 MPG. And PS, deisels have more torque and power, that's why ALOT of Le Mans race cars use it

i believe you, then why build a more expensive hybrid. by a 20k diesel car
and 10k dollars of diesel. its cheaper than
the 30k hybrid

you could drive your car 250,000 miles for 10k dollars in diesel. expensive hybrids
are not cost effective

Just a little comment to the author regarding the "Brazil Fallacy": I live in Brazil and frankly all those comments about ethanol taking rainforest and food lands are simply misinformation. THe forest is usually destroyed by soy plantations and cattle farmers. The biggest ethanol producing region is where I live and is quite to the south of the country, Ribeirão Preto, near São Paulo. I work on the field and am deeply saddened when people attack our biofuels programme, which ISN´T subsidized.

He was stating that your program is good, but would not work in America or other places away from the equator. It is unique, which is good for you, but we need to focus on those evolutions that will work for us and not assume that the solution already exists. It was a comment too American policy makers who believe that Brazil's solution would work here, to start thinking hard about America's energy needs.

That's absolutely true... most of ethanol production in Brazil is way South, not even near the Ecuador line...

That's absolutely true... most of ethanol production in Brazil is way South, not even near the Ecuador line...

i accord, the biggest production is in São Paulo and Paraná; this solution CAN WORK on other place, by developing techniques os cultivation, like mirror or what ever

Where can I learn more about algae as a bio fuel?
Ingyz

They have found some super algae in nature. Beyond that they could engage in nano tech to isolate the proteins. The important thing which surpasses the fischer tropsch is the fact that you could have multiple producers. The technology is developing faster, but when it is refined, you'll have as many energy producers of algae diesel as you will microbreweries and vineyards. Whilest a few companies will control the refineries for converting coal or whatever feedstock will be used into diesel.