I don't have time to overload MM.net's servers and get banned for accidentally crashing the site. Only one potentially 'upside' and it's debatable. The
'global warming' organized crime syndicate state that ethanol burns cleaner, which it does UNTIL you examine the pollution and energy expended in the production of moonshine-hooch-ethanol.
Recalling these figures from a few years back when they were openly published, not so anymore.
$5 per gallon to manufacture
3 Gallons of water consumed for each gallon manufactured
BTUs much less than pure gasoline
Ethanol production drives up the cost of food
Damage to engines not designed for it
Shorter shelf life.
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Upsides? Increased octane? Give me 93 'pure gas' without the moonshine mix please.
From 2017:
The Drawbacks of Ethanol: Food Versus Industry
Ethanol and other biofuels are often promoted as clean and lower cost alternatives to gasoline, but the production and use of ethanol is not all positive. The major debate about corn and soy-based biofuels is the amount of land that the production takes away from food production, but also in that industrial corn and soy farming is harmful to the environment in a different way.
Growing corn for ethanol involves the use of large amounts of synthetic fertilizer and herbicide, and corn production, in general, is a frequent source of nutrient and sediment pollution; also, the typical practices of industrial versus commercial and local food farmers are considered more environmentally hazardous.
The challenge of growing enough crops to meet the demands of ethanol and biodiesel production is significant and, some say, insurmountable. According to some authorities, producing enough biofuels to enable their widespread adoption could mean converting most of the world’s remaining forests and open spaces to farmland — a sacrifice few people would be willing to make.
“Replacing only five percent of the nation’s diesel consumption with biodiesel would require diverting approximately 60 percent of today’s soy crops to biodiesel production,” says Matthew Brown, an energy consultant and former energy program director at the National Conference of State Legislatures.
In a 2005 study, Cornell University researcher David Pimental factored in the energy needed to grow crops and convert them to biofuels and concluded that producing ethanol from corn required 29 percent more energy than ethanol is capable of generating.
http://www.kosu.org/post/pros-and-co...ithout-ethanol
Originally Posted by Invective
I don't have time to overload MM.net's servers and get banned for accidentally crashing the site. Only one potentially 'upside' and it's debatable. The 'global warming' organized crime syndicate state that ethanol burns cleaner, which it does UNTIL you examine the pollution and energy expended in the production of moonshine-hooch-ethanol.
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