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5 Gallons Of Water = 1 Gallon Of Ethanol
By Mr Ethanol | June 23, 2008
Green Daily:
What I’m about to tell you isn’t new. It’s not new like Tori Spelling endorsing a line of baby clothes. Heck, it’s not even new like, bananas could go the way of dinosaurs.
No, this is just a reminder of what we already know:
One gallon of ethanol on average requires five gallons of water. Not only that, ethanol is an expensive fuel to produce. Currently the U.S. government subsidizes its production at .54 a gallon. That’s to drop to .47, due to the 2008 Farm Bill.
Renowned environmental researcher David Pimentel of Cornell University has completed numerous studies that show ethanol, no matter the biomass used to produce it, simply uses more energy than it produces.That’s because ethanol is made from heavily tilled and fertilized crops that then are shipped hundreds of miles to ethanol plants where the process of conversion begins.
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