Doesn’t it also wear down engines more quickly?
Ethanol is hard on all the soft bits in an engine. Rubber seals, diaphrams and so on. This is most dramatically seen in small engines that still use carburetors vs fuel injection.
U.S. corn-based ethanol worse for the climate than gasoline, study finds
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#12We can't build out tried and tested nuclear reactors but we can and will continue to do this. I am so done with the "green" movement.
Any movement will get partially coopted by entrenched business interests
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#13Intuitively this seems wrong. The explanation in the article doesn't seem convincing. Any form of synthetic fuel that doesn't take more carbon out of the Earth should be better, no?
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#14I thought corn ethanol was for fuel diversity, not green energy.
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#15Intuitively this seems wrong. The explanation in the article doesn't seem convincing. Any form of synthetic fuel that doesn't take more carbon out of the Earth should be better, no?
More energy in the form of diesel and fossil fuel derived fertilizer went into corn ethanol than you get out in usable fuel
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#17We can't build out tried and tested nuclear reactors but we can and will continue to do this. I am so done with the "green" movement.
weird thing to call the iowa corn lobby.
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#18"Corn is not a _food_.
Corn is a _platform_."
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#19I think this has been well established for years. I remember seeing some studies circa 2008 showing that more energy in the form of diesel and fossil fuel derived fertilizer went into corn ethanol than you get out in usable fuel. It has always been an agricultural subsidy.
The ethanol is required as an anti-knock additive.
The past alternative was tetraethyllead, which had catastrophic environmental impact.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead#Antiknock_agent
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#20I think this has been well established for years. I remember seeing some studies circa 2008 showing that more energy in the form of diesel and fossil fuel derived fertilizer went into corn ethanol than you get out in usable fuel. It has always been an agricultural subsidy.
The ethanol is required as an anti-knock additive. The past alternative was tetraethyllead, which had catastrophic environmental impact. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead#Antiknock_agent
Not true. We went decades without lead or ethanol. You can still get ethanol-free gas if you look hard, and modern engines run quite happily on it.