biofuel (Page 7)

We’ve written about fuel from corn and fuel from garbage, but?fuel from ice?

In the future, natural gas derived from chunks of ice that workers collect from beneath the ocean floor and beneath the arctic permafrost may fuel cars, heat homes, and power factories. These are called “gas hydrates,” a frozen form of natural gas that bursts into flames at the touch of a match, and they show increasing promise as an abundant, untapped source of clean, sustainable energy, which does not release greenhouse gases.

In a landmark study, the USGS scientists estimated that 85.4 trillion cubic feet of natural gas could potentially be extracted from gas hydrates in Alaska?s North Slope region, enough to heat more than 100 million average homes for more than a decade.
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It’s long past time to start to plan for the future. We may soon have soybean tires?How about soybean fuel…and a jet plane that runs on algae?
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Biofuels based on ethanol, vegetable oil and other renewable sources are popular with government and environmentalists as a way to reduce fossil fuel dependence and limit greenhouse gas emissions. The problem? They may have exactly the OPPOSITE impacts than the ones intended. Maybe we should all switch to electric cars!
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When it comes to your automobile, we’ve said it before: Don’t burn gas, use grass, but use the RIGHT KIND of grass (and DON’T rely on corn as a biofuel, because this is mainly a ploy by our government to get rid of acres of subsidized corn).

A weed called switchgrass makes the best biofuel. BBC News reports that “switchgrass-derived ethanol produced 540% more energy than was required to manufacture the fuel.” What is this extraordinary plant and where do we find it? It turns out it?s growing wild on the prairies of the United States.
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