Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Cooking up the Liquor, for your Vehicle that is.

Fossil Fuels are on the ropes. Don't get me wrong they are here to stay, but their reign is now on the decline. Why? Fossil Fuels are a finite resource, and we have extracted most of what comes out easily... particularly with oil. Alternatives are beginning to come into the fore-front, vying for future supremacy as the fuel of choice. Bio-diesel and Bio-ethanol are two fuels, renewable and potentially viable. Bio-diesel was what the first diesel engines ran on. If I remember correctly, the first diesel engine ran on peanut oil... break out the JIF.

Bio-ethanol has already been successfully adopted by Brazil. There sugarcane is refined into Bio-ethanol, a far more efficient process than that which makes corn into Bio-ethanol. However the future for ethanol is a bit hazy. There are more efficient ways to create electricity, and electric vehicle production is on the rise.

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