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 Stories About: biofuels AND waste AND ethanol AND food AND agriculture AND energy
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Maybe not such a great idea after all?
Feeding ethanol waste to cows |
Tom Philpott |
04 Dec 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Perhaps the most persistent debate around corn ethanol involves its 'net energy balance' -- that is, whether it consumes more energy in production than it delivers as a fuel. Even the studies that credit the fuel with a robust energy balance, like this one from the USDA, acknowledge that it's pretty much a wash unless you account for the "co-product" of the ethanol-making process. The ethanol process consumes only the starch component of corn, leaving behi ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, biofuels, energy, ethanol, food, waste (all these topics) |
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