Fastest Way To Do The Most Damage To The Environment Is With Alternative Fuel Solutions –Bad Solution Gone Worse

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Fastest Way To Do The Most Damage To The Environment Is With Alternative Fuel Solutions –Bad Solution Gone Worse

By: GARKO

The potential disaster facing us is not actually global warming but human stupidity and shortsightedness in implementing false and destructive solutions of which there are many.
One of these dead end solutions is corn-derived Ethanol which is the favorite of politicians, corporations and media.
Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper. Our current ethanol production represents only 3.5 percent of our gasoline consumption -- yet it consumes twenty percent of the entire U.S. corn crop, causing the price of corn to double in the last two years and raising the threat of hunger in the Third World. And the increasing acreage devoted to corn for ethanol means less land for other staple crops, giving farmers in South America an incentive to carve fields out of tropical forests that help to cool the planet and stave off global warming.
Three factors are driving the ethanol hype. The first is panic: Many energy experts believe that the world's oil supplies have already peaked or will peak within the next decade. The second is election-year politics. Interestingly enough, the primaries started in Iowa so all the candidates except one or two that have integrity suddenly became huge fans of Ethanol! .
The third factor stoking the ethanol frenzy is the war in Iraq, which has made energy independence a universal political slogan. Unlike coal, another heavily subsidized energy source, ethanol has the added political benefit of elevating the American farmer to national hero. It takes some talent to be such a good spin master that you can put the American farmer growing corn as “the top of the spear on the war against terrorism as a former CIA director (James Woolsey) did but he did it! So, if you love America, how can you not love ethanol?
Well, I love America but I sure as heck don’t love ethanol! As a gasoline substitute, ethanol has big problems: Its energy density is one-third less than gasoline, which means you have to burn more of it to get the same amount of power. It also has a nasty tendency to absorb water, so it can't be transported in existing pipelines and it must be distributed by truck or rail, which is tremendously inefficient.
Besides, ethanol is tremendously variable as regards the energy production achievable from different sources of Ethanol. In Brazil, ethanol made from sugar cane has an energy balance of 8-to-1 -- that is, when you add up the fossil fuels used to irrigate, fertilize, grow, transport and refine sugar cane into ethanol, the energy output is eight times higher than the energy inputs. That's a better deal than gasoline, which has an energy balance of 5-to-1. In contrast, the energy balance of corn ethanol is only 1.3-to-1 - making it practically worthless as an energy source. "Corn ethanol is essentially a way of recycling natural gas," says Robert Rapier, an oil-industry engineer who runs the R-Squared Energy Blog.
But as today's "New York Times" reports, residents of River Bend Farm, an Alabama suburb which is in the vicinity of a biodiesel plant, cited a black viscuous slime that was fouling the Black Warrior River. It turns out that the stuff was 450 times higher than regulations for black yuck goo of this nature allow and the stuff had drifted two miles from its source.
It was a cocktail of oil and glycerin, byproducts of biodiesel production. They deplete oxygen in waters with rapidity, leaving dead fish behind. And it is equally poisonous to birds as Exxon's Valdeez spill in Alaska. Alabama isn't alone in this problem. In January a businessman in Missouri was charged for a leakage that killed 25,000 fish and commited genocide on the population of fat pocketbook mussels, which is on the endangered species list. Can you say... "OOOPS"???
Only yesterday, a study from the University of British Columbia predicted that in increase in corn production for fuel will widen the so-called "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico, the dead zone is a location with such a small amount of oxygen that sea life literally can't breathe and dies. And today's "Des Moines Register" reports that Cargill, Inc., is being hit with a $100,000 environmental fine--the largest an Iowa biofuels plant has ever been fined--for multiple environmental misdeeds involving illegal discharges.
Despite the serious drawbacks of ethanol, some technological visionaries believe that the fuel can be done right. "Corn ethanol is just a platform, the first step in a much larger transition we are undergoing from a hydrocarbon-based economy to a carbohydrate-based economy," says Vinod Khosla, a pioneering venture capitalist in Silicon Valley. Next-generation corn- ethanol plants, he argues, will be much more efficient and environmentally friendly. He points to a company called E3 BioFuels that just opened an ethanol plant in Mead, Nebraska. The facility runs largely on biogas made from cow manure, and feeds leftover grain back to the cows, making it a "closed-loop system" -- one that requires very few fossil fuels to create ethanol.
In the end, the ethanol boom is another manifestation of America's blind faith that technology will solve all our problems. Thirty years ago, nuclear power was the answer. Then it was hydrogen. Biofuels may work out better, especially if mandates are coupled with tough caps on greenhouse-gas emissions.
Ok folks, sorry if I depressed you. But I am just trying to wake you up to the truth. Further on along those lines I do have good news!
WATER4GAS is sharing information for a nominal fee which individuals can use in their garage or wherever to create a small device which instills hydrogen into the fuel/air mixture that their car or truck runs on.
What this does is make smaller particles out of the particles that the engine burns as fuel. So the system is able to use much more of the gas.
By doing this you can minimumly expect to increase your fuel economy by 30-50% or significantly more. Those molecules "musta" been pretty darn big in some systems before. But with WATER4GAS they are made usable so you can increase your fuel economy.
It also helps to lower emissions significantly.
This information has been purchased by over 9000 car owners already and happy members number about 99%! So how about you?

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Activist, songwriter, consumer advocate and entrepreneur, GARKO, is on a mission to save you from having to invent a car that runs on water and has good news that a water powered car is now reality and is one of the best tips on what you can do to save on gas consumption For a list of current gas prices in your neighborhood email garko@startlingdiscoveries.info

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