is it efficient
2007-11-15 11:42:55 · 15 answers · asked by Cory A 1 in Environment ➔ Alternative Fuel Vehicles
Sure, if we're up for burning the cornerstone of our food supply!
2007-11-15 11:52:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
No, Ethanol is not the best alternative fuel, because continuous utilization of it would negatively affect other sectors of the society, like the sectors in need of the same, say por ejemplo, anticeptic, disinfectant and other things. The common source of Ethanol is Sugar, the Sugar industry cannot withstand the demand for the production of Ethanol. Time will come that we will have no Suagr for our Coffee or Chocolate, all went to Ethanol. The situation is, we have a cheap fuel made of Ethanol yet we have the most expensive Sugar that only the very rich can afford up to the point that there is no Sugar at all since all went to the production of Ethanol. The best alternative fuel is Water, plain Water. There is a Technology in the Philippines that makes the Water a fuel for vehicles. There is a gadget known as a Separator that is simply attached in your vehicle machine, now this Separator separates the two components of Water, the Hydrogen and Oxygen. It is the Hydrogen that is utilize as fuel. Numerous demonstrations to the vehicles fed by this Water - Fuel reveal that the vehicles emit no smoke or other pollutants that harm and subsequently destroy our fragile and precious Environment. It is actually hitting two birds at a single stone.
2007-11-15 21:32:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, honestly, its the worst possible choice. Our country was retarded and too narrow minded and chose this. Its highly ineffecient, destroys crops, cant be transported easily, and has horrible power output. There are really no acctual pros to it. Hydrogen is the best choice. If you research enough, you'll find that, thanks to Norway, Hydrogen as a fuel source has come a very, very long way. So far that theyve made a electrolosys machine the size of a fridge that can fill a fuel cell in about 3 mins. So its about the size of a large pump. How they do it tho is filling fuel cells underground for storage at stations, like they do fuel nowdays. Then it pumps from there. Hydrogen is now cost effective, as powerful as gas, and much safer. So yea, down with Ethanol, lol.
Ah, jomoj, your talking about Hydrogen too, but most of your info is false. Do some more research. Your on the right track, but just read false information. Dont rely on one site or even Wiki. Wiki is user submitted info, so if they have it wrong, so does everyone reading it, but it is a good starting point.
Dana, research about electric cars before you advocate it. You know almost nothing.
Uhh...... M S idiot below me, do you really understand what you just said. About 90 percent of it was wrong. It is less costly, but has much lower power output. Ethanol made from sugar cane has about 80% the power output of Gasoline and Ethanol from corn is even worse. You really haven't done any research. You most likely fell into the advertizment ploy of GM's Live Green, Go Yellow. You do realize that was just a commercial to sell their Flex-Fuel cars, lol. I'll admit, that was a great advertisment idea, and I applaude them for that, but I hate it because it closed peoples minds to new ideas and made people thenk that Ethanol was the future, even though GM themselves says its a good, temporary fuel source. So stop being dumb and read.
2007-11-16 06:27:51 · answer #3 · answered by Bob 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No ethanol is not efficient. Corn-based ethanol in particular only contains about 70% the energy density of gasoline, so you don't go as far on a tank of gas if it contains ethanol.
Plus there's the problem of using agricultural land for transportation fuel. The more biofuels we grow, the less land there is for food crops, and the higher the cost of food.
The best alternative fuel is electricity. Electric engines are extremely efficient, low-maintenance, and the infrastructure is already in place (the power grid).
2007-11-15 22:10:05 · answer #4 · answered by Dana1981 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
No, we should be eating the crops, not using it to power vehicles. Ethanol is expensive, the government has to subsidize the production of it to make it competitive. It requires special containers to ship. And, it has less energy output than gasoline.
For the most part, politicians are pandering to the farming sector to gain votes.
In the end, the US uses so much fuel, that if you converted all the crops possible (without disrupting the markets) in the country, it would only provide about 10% of the projected fuel demand.
2007-11-16 11:03:08 · answer #5 · answered by Richard the Physicist 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Whatever fuel can be made in the largest quantities for the lowest cost is the best. That is probably ethanol right now. If new methods are found to make some other fuel more easily, like methane or hydrogen or methanol, then it will change. But right now it is probably ethanol.
2007-11-15 21:07:51 · answer #6 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Ethanol is the fuel of the future. We'll never run out of it and it can be made entirely from renewable resources. It reduces our dependence on foreign oil, keeps money out of terrorist's hands, reduces the trade deficit, fights global warming, and creates high-paying American jobs.
In addition it is cheaper than gasoline, gives you more horsepower, is made in America, is renewable(made from corn and other plants), and burns cleaner than gasoline.
Now we wouldn't want to do any of those things now would we.
2007-11-16 07:10:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No,Methane is more to the future.We all produce it.It`s just a matter of time before we start to harness it.Right now we are letting lot`s of it escaping into the atmosphere and is hurting the environment.We know it is better to burn it then release it so let`s start using it.The city were i live uses the methane produced in are landfill to generate electricity.Cattle,sheep,pig`s and humans all produce methane in there waste.Sewage treatment plants can be converted to produce methane and so can farms.We have always produced methane we are only now starting to use it.
2007-11-15 23:01:03 · answer #8 · answered by Zombie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. It is environmentally destructive to produce for its own sake. It is thrown off as a byproduct now and then and, of course, that can be utilized.
Dana's answer is quite funny though. He seems to think electricity is a fuel. He is a poster child for the lack of understanding of basic science by those who think people are responsible for global warming.
2007-11-15 22:26:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Bio Diesel! Recycled cooking oil and corn oil! CO is producing....
2007-11-16 00:04:36 · answer #10 · answered by kittykris2002 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no. This idea will be abandoned. It is less efficient and more costly. It is also damaging to the seals on an engine
2007-11-15 20:47:12 · answer #11 · answered by docC 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋