A proposed increase in ethanol use in gasoline would require planting as much as 111 million acres of corn and using almost half of the crop for the fuel by 2015, according to a study by the U.S. grocery industry. Boosting the amount of biofuels allowed to be blended in gasoline could make last year’s [...]
2009Tue09Jun
Ethanol Blend Hike May Require Half of U.S. Corn Crop
Filed in Ethanol News, Food vs Fuel
2009Fri08May
Greater Transportation Energy and GHG Offsets from Bioelectricity Than Ethanol
Filed in Cars / Automobiles, Ethanol News, Food vs Fuel, TechnologyThe quantity of land available to grow biofuel crops without impacting food prices or greenhouse gas emissions from land conversion is limited. Therefore, bioenergy should maximize land-use efficiency when addressing transportation and climate change goals. Biomass could power either internal combustion or electric vehicles, but the relative land-use efficiency of these two energy pathways is [...]
