corn ethanol Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 30 Jan 2015 15:25:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Agave Ethanol Could Replace Petrol Without Displacing Food Crops https://www.greenoptimistic.com/agave-ethanol-20110809/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/agave-ethanol-20110809/#respond Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:59:45 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=20014 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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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/agave-ethanol-20110809/feed/ 0 20014 Corn Ethanol Consuming Three Times More Water Than We Thought https://www.greenoptimistic.com/corn-ethanol-water-consumption-20090416/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/corn-ethanol-water-consumption-20090416/#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:55:58 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=3401 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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