Ethanol on Modern Marvels

Modern Marvels segment on ethanol production.

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[renewable2001]

I am sorry that you did not include a Stabilizer in your 94 Chevy...ethanol or not, you should not store an older vehicle that long without putting something in the tank...boats are the same thing...i would never store mine for a winter without seaform...yes, ethanol does separate from gas and can cause problems for fuel lines IF you don't add a stabilizer.

[pigs4islam]

1 gallon equivalent of gasoline creates 1.3 gallons of CORN ethanol, but one gallon of ethanol only contains 66.6% the energy of gasoline so CORN ethanol creates a net energy loss. Ethanol is simply the biggest corporate welfare program ever seen.

[mohamedtheprophet1]

Food prices are going out of control because of government mandates for the use of this crap. Please do one thing: go to congress.org and put in your zip code than write your federal reps and ask them to Suspend ethanol and biodiesel mandates, all corn ethanol and biodiesel would than have to sell on it's merit not by force.

[randy95023]

People are starving in this world and we are using that beautiful Corn to burn in our cars?! My Grandfather and his brothers made Corn Liquor in the Ozarks 85 years ago. So long as there is one drop of OIL in the world we shouldn't be burning Corn in our cars. Old Technology and a tragic, and inefficient waste of FOOD...

If it made economic sense there would not be one dollar of "Government Money" involved!

[picaticatara]

now im sure they will fill up gas reservoirs with ethanol and the world will blow up

[leerman22]

Smuff out a fire by burning down another building and you have an illustration of ethanol.

[archmaille]

@pigs4islam There's a net energy loss for big ethanol producers, there's also a net energy loss for big gas producers. It is possible to get a net energy gain by doing it at home. Of course that gain you are experiencing is from the energy of the sun so would it be more efficient to just use solar panels and an electric car, or hybrid?

[cshammontree]

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[monsterrain1000]

@wtfjaftw You are a liar sir. I have personally harvested hemp myself in southern Manitoba. Hemp biomass in no way will compete with Miscanthus gigantus or energy cane on yield, fertilizer consumpsion, water needed, stand life, or rhysome strength, YOU ARE OUT OF YOUR LEAGUE ON THIS ONE. Hemp is a horrible crop to make fuel out of any way you slice it. Tell me the % of silica in hemp compared to Japanese switchgrass when it comes to producing biomass energy and then we can talk.Your clueless sir

[monsterrain1000]

@wtfjaftw Pre 1970s our farm policy and commodities was totally different. So I am not even sure what you reference to our founding fathers has to do with anything. I have personally baled Kenaf, hemp, miscanthus, energy cane, switchgrass, rice and wheat straw, corn stalks and corn cobs in the past 30 years. I aint the expert on biomass crops but I can damn sure tell you what crops will succeed and what will fail. Hemp will fail. Good Luck with your cause though.

[wtfjaftw]

@mohamedtheprophet1 The food prices is going of control is because the lack of a free market in the financial industry! People are force to get their credit out of thin air from banksters who loan it out on interest! ANd since we have a populace that believes or is trick into that government welfare/warfare state that always gets them a quick high, but then you get the drawback of a bad economy.

[wtfjaftw]

@monsterrain1000 LOL! Theres already been studies hemp produces more yield than soy, corn, sugar cane, and it reduces the problem is YOU CAN'T GROW IT! Get the government out of people's lives! Self-sovereignty people! Hemp has 10,000's of uses you cannot say it has no economical value. It was about to kick out oil because it was becoming a billion dollar crop! In the 1930s! That's why it started to be regulated. Hemp is basically cannabis, yeah right buddy! Wat the hell do you know!

[wtfjaftw]

@monsterrain1000 Oh? So our founding fathers didn't understand farming commodities? Of course there from the same families! But are humans and apes the same species that do the same thing? That's bullshit studying biomass for years, and there is no free market in the US! Look at the drug laws! Look at the Federal Reserve! Look at the corporatist war over see's this is a few with big pockets ruling over the small we have socialism!