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How Ethanol Is Made Animated Feature

Is your inquisitive mind thinking, "How does a growing crop turn into a liquid that fuels my ride?" Get the step-by-step explanation about how ethanol is made in this short, animated feature.

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assmaster : LVL 43: VP 5: said:

assmaster

1 votes NegativePositive

46 days 5 hours ago...

I wonder if you can turn bamboo into ethanol. I could become a millionaire if it can.

sum_guy : LVL 40: VP 4.8: said:

sum_guy

46 votes NegativePositive

46 days 2 hours ago...

Just a few little problems:
With petroleum-based fertilizers and pesticides, diesel farming equipment and trucks, plus the power needed to do everything mentioned in the video, it takes more oil to produce a gallon of ethanol than a gallon of regular gas
AND ethanol contains less energy than gas, so using it reduces your cars mpg
AND the grass/wood chip conversion isn`t yet viable, all current ethanol comes from corn, so we are basically burning food in the middle of a worldwide hunger epidemic

We do need a solution, but this isn`t it

fryser_d : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

fryser_d

16 votes NegativePositive

46 days ago...

Ethanol is a dream... and a dum one.


You can pack the trunck of your car full of corn and only the fact of bring it back home, will use the same quantity of corn... Yes, it takes THAT much shit...

You use corn to EAT, not to move your ass in a 2 tons car.

Cullum : LVL 24: VP 3.3: said:

Cullum

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45 days 23 hours ago...

Wtf is a trunck? ^^ The credibility of that statement just went down..

AusTerran : LVL 17: VP 2.6: said:

AusTerran

11 votes NegativePositive

45 days 17 hours ago...

Trunk = Boot of your car...

exploder : LVL 48: VP 5: said:

exploder

14 votes NegativePositive

45 days ago...

Intensive industrial agriculture, for all of you who have forgotten, is one of those particularly nasty land uses, that many informed people expect will eventually turn large areas into sterile wastelands. It depletes soil, kills all the little bugs, puts pesticide and fertilizer contamination into the water, and usually ends up causing salt buildups in the soil.

I`m not some expert, but I haven`t just forgotten all of those last decades battles that we-the-public already lost against mega-corp business.

So ANY fuel source that involves agriculture is OUT in my books, unless it`s 100% direct biomass useage. And corn is NOT, ehtanol just works in gas motors, so it`s a quick fad of somthing to do.

Electric, compressed air, biomass to hydrocarbon, direct bacterial hydrogen... lots of other better things to do than ethanol. Oh yeah, and if you want less pollution, then burn less fucking fuel. But telling most Americans that is like beating your head with a brick. Sorry to the few out there who get it.

Alphamatroxom : LVL 29: VP 3.8: said:

Alphamatroxom

3 votes NegativePositive

44 days 16 hours ago...

Hydrogen is the way to go. Solar power to split water = holy shit 100% efficiency :O

tokentiki : LVL 47: VP 5: said:

tokentiki

2 votes NegativePositive

44 days 13 hours ago...

you get more mileage if its pure gasoline actually(maybe why your car seems to guzzle gas since ethanol became 10%) so ethanol actually cancels itself out for what it`s worth. either way if you start using our limited agriculture supplies then what are we going to eat? we already import tons and tons of food products

Ordie : LVL 31: VP 4: said:

Ordie

13 votes NegativePositive

44 days 9 hours ago...

Also ethonol leave a deposit in your engine why your fuel efencincy goes way down and like someone mentioned before we are in a food crisis is just sick when people starve. im gettin so tired of the green nazis right now

Danielnator : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

Danielnator

4 votes NegativePositive

43 days 3 hours ago...

Welcome to Rapture...

Hannsimus : LVL 29: VP 3.8: said:

Hannsimus

3 votes NegativePositive

43 days 1 hour ago...

^bioshock for the win. First thing I thought of as well.

skibxskatic : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

skibxskatic

0 votes NegativePositive

43 days 1 hour ago...

Haha, i got a kick out of 200 proof.

PYRO UA : LVL 18: VP 2.7: said:

PYRO UA

1 votes NegativePositive

42 days 23 hours ago...

^^^ green nazis, haha, thanks im gonna use that from now on

willy313 : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

willy313

0 votes NegativePositive

42 days 20 hours ago...

I am going to start making my own fuel now.

Bombardier4.3 : LVL 19: VP 2.8: said:

Bombardier4.3

0 votes NegativePositive

42 days 20 hours ago...

I`d rather eat then drive my car

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