Sunday, December 11, 2011

Biofuels ^_^

Ethanol is a volatile liquid and has a slight odor. Ethanol was mainly used for drinking alcohol and is colorless. It's also used in thermometers, as solvents, and as fuel of course. The United States became the world's largest producer of ethanol fuel. In 2011 most cars, trucks, and minivans mainly use ethanol as fuel now. The RFA (Renewable Fuels Association) reported 204 ethanol distilleries in operation and another 9 under construction. Most of the ethanol was created from corn. One of the main problems of ethanol is the amount of land needed to grow all the corn to acquire materials to being the process of making ethanol. I'm just ready for someone to find a renewable resource that gives us the same power as gas in our cars. Water is a great choice but I don't think we would be able to gain much power. There is a huge spike in electric cars and many people are buying into that portion of car. Many different types of materials are being used as fuels like cellulose, sugar, corn (of course) even human waste. This just goes to show people are out there willing and ready to make the world a better place so we don't have to depend on fossil fuels because sooner or later we will run out and it won't be a nice day for anyone if we haven't found a new source of fuel.

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