"The sugar found in fruit such as apples and oranges can be converted into a new type of low carbon fuel for cars, US scientists have said." Link And you thought orange juice was expensive now...
Sugar is too easy a base, and too scarce. Why do humans like sweet from birth? BioButanol is the way to go until we can go pure EV.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TimBikes @ Jun 21 2007, 01:59 AM) [snapback]465612[/snapback]</div> That's precisely why fuel sources from food sources are a bad idea... in addition to the environmental impact of creating the amount of space necessary to grow enough crops to convert to fuel, you simply don't want food staple prices to be rising because the product is becoming more valuable as fuel. And if you're among the world's poorest already, you really, really don't want that...
Making oil for fuel or other productions from waste material is great. Food crops are a horrible idea as we've seen. It looks like China has now put heavy restrictions on corn ethanol and the like. This is one case where a managed economy is a good thing.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(tripp @ Jun 21 2007, 01:02 PM) [snapback]465809[/snapback]</div> But it's amazing how many people think it's a great idea.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(nytimez @ Jun 21 2007, 01:04 PM) [snapback]465917[/snapback]</div> That's changing though... It doesn't work for the ethanol producers either because it cuts into their profits. When the price of a bushel of corn doubled in a year that made ethanol considerably less profitable than it was when corm was $2/bushel.
