Biofuels May Disperse More Greenhouse Gases Than Oil

[♦ nivek ♦]

Study: Biofuels May Disperse More Greenhouse Gases Than Oil

 

Saturday , September 22, 2007

 

 

Corn-derived renewable energy sources create more greenhouse gases than fossil fuels, according to a study from an international team of scientists reported in the London Times.

 

Research findings published in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics calculate that corn and rapeseed biodiesels produce up to 70 percent and 50 percent more greenhouse gases respectively than fossil fuels.

 

Read about the eye-opening fuel alternative study in London Times report.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/s...icle2507851.ece

 

The study focues on nitrous oxide, which is 296 times more powerful as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Scientists found that the use of biofuels released twice as much as nitrous oxide as previously realised.

 

The research was performed by scientists from the U.S. Britain, and Germany and it included Professor Paul Crutzen, a Nobel Prize-winning ozone scholar.

 

Corn-based ethanol is the leading biofuel alternative in the US while rapeseed is used in 80 percent of biofuels created in Europe.

[Evan]

well fuck... its back to the drawing board...

[texmex2003]

OPen up fucking ANWAR

[mwc]

First of all that's what we get for rushing into a "solution."

 

Second of all that's why jesus planted all that oil for us in the first place.

 

mwc

[Grandpa Harley]

Actually, it's due to the 'refining' process that you end up with so much shit...

 

running a Diesel on unmodified corn oil is about as dirty as normal diesel (lot of C₆₀ particulates and water...) and modern Diesel filters keep that shit in for the most part.

[Guest Structural Engineer]

Research should continue anyway. We must find another alternative then. Its not like the oil wells are infinite.

[Grandpa Harley]

I'd agree with that.

 

If we can drag it out for a few million years, we may be able to use the landfill plastics...