In your face Vinod! Ethanol produces double the GHG of oil.
by
amazngdrx
on Fri 08 Feb 2008 12:23 AM CST
Out blogging billionaires? Just part of my job. Hehey.
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/1/14/1224/31738#44
The truth about ethanol is out, it doubles GHG emissions over oil. Why? Because it stops the carbon sink acvtivity of land used to grow the fuel crop. Just as I have claimed repeatedly in response to Vinod Khosla's statements. Any reply yet?
Hate to say I told you so...
http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2008/01/23/more ...
"The University of California at Berkeley's Transportation Sustainability Research Center told the California Air Resources Board that ethanol could be twice as bad as gasoline, from a carbon-emissions point of view. How? Basically by turning land now covered with trees, grass, and other natural "carbon sinks" into farmland for corn and other crops used for ethanol. (Ethanol's dirty secret has also recently been explored by Science and other magazines.)
"Simply said, ethanol production today using U.S. corn contributes to the conversion of grasslands and rainforest to agriculture, causing very large GHG emissions," wrote Berkeley profs Alex Farrell and Michael O'Hare in a January 12 memo to California regulators. "Even if only a small fraction of the emissions calculated in this crude way [through land use change] are added to estimates of direct emissions for corn ethanol, total emissions for corn ethanol are higher than for fossil fuels."
Please admit defeat and plow your venture capital into renewable smart grid technology, wind, solar, water, biogas power, plugin hybrids and electric commuter rail, and geo heat exchange heating/coooling. Thanks.
