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Agave Ethanol Could Replace Petrol Without Displacing Food Crops

Posted by Mircea Sandru in Ethanol on August 9, 2011

In recent years, those voices saying that using corn crops to produce biofuels is a bad idea are increasingly common. Taking into account the concentration of carbon emitted into the atmosphere and the high prices of grain, many people said that corn ethanol proved to be worse than oil. The agave plants nevertheless proved that [...]


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Corn Ethanol Consuming Three Times More Water Than We Thought

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Ethanol on April 16, 2009

More and more research studies show the fact that biofuels, ethanol, and other zero-carbon burning fuels do more damage than they do good in the long run. According to a recent study, it looks like ethanol, the petrol companies’ saving field, consumes up to three times more water than it was previously thought, as MIT’s Technology Review states.


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