While the hysteria continues to mount about global warming all sorts of “solutions” are being advanced and some are more harmful than others and some are even more harmful than fossil fuels!. Biofuel, as you probably know or can guess from the name, is any energy source derived from living organisms of any kind. The most prevalent variety of biofuel is Ethanol made from corn and combined with gasoline into something called E85, and this is a mixture in a ratio of 15:85 gasoline:ethanol. However, the gasoline and ethanol content changes depending on the season. During the Winter months you need more gasoline in the mixture to ensure the fuel works properly, so E85 is at least 70% ethanol.
The fact that E85 needs 15-30% gasoline in the mixture is not the major problem, that factor is really not such a big deal. If everyone was using E85 and the use of gasoline got cut by 70% that would be a tremendous advantage. .
The real problems with Ethanol follow… The shift to biofuels is causing a global food shortage beyond the usual. The problems are rather fascinating Corn is the primary food base from which ethanol is derived. Since corn is grown and harvested by farmers, there is a finite amount of land that can be used to produce corn. The demand for the corn crop has grown substantially due to the push for biofuels while the supply has struggled to keep up. Corn is more profitable to grow now due to the increased demand, so those in agriculture are growing more corn at the sacrifice of wheat and soy. Instead of a shortage in one staple crop, corn, there is now a shortage in two additional food staples: wheat and soy. This brings on three new sets of problems: lack of land on which to grow corn and other staples, soaring food prices and, yes, potential starvation of the poor.
Also, where do you get the land from to grow the additional demand of corn? This is where the whole situation goes psychotic from the viewpoint of environmentalism. Back in the 80s, environmentalists told us that if we would only plant more trees we would save the world, remember? As if every day was Arbor Day, everyone was told that the solution was to just plant more trees and that was the main message being pushed from the green people and even corporations were including it as part of their public relations and marketing… that they were helping the cause, planting trees, etc. Now the tree-hugging philosophy may fail as more land is needed to produce corn - and that land will have to come from deforestation. Millions of carbon dioxide-breathing trees may meet their end as the demand for biofuels increases over the coming years and decades. And a recent study found that converting land to use for biofuel crops worsens global warming. Buy a gallon, kill a tree. Critics have been angered by the loss of tropical rainforests, which have been levelled to allow farms to grow biofuel crops.
Laying waste to forest land has been calculated to account for roughly 18% of Earth's greenhouse gas emissions and many scientists view the practice of eliminating forest land for the purposes of growing crops for biofuel to be simply crazy.
So enough about ethanol from corn as a viable alternative energy solution. It ain’t gonna happen!
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