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Straight Veggie Oil / Biodiesel Conversions 200

posted by  julian265 on  Thu Nov 18 00:37 CST 2004
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Trev,

"Actually alcohol is a clean burning fuel so emissions of no concern. "
The vast majority of petrol burns in the same way as ethanol - forming carbon dioxide and water vapour. So how is it (ethanol) clean burning, and what does that term mean?

"If the alcohol is obtained from green sources rather than pulled from the ground there would be no net increase in global warming. Its the carbon that was stored in the ground for millions of years that is being added to the atmosphere."
It doesn't matter at all where the carbon is coming from, the fact is that it is being put into the atmosphere, regardless of what we are burning ==> Less oxygen, more CO2, more warming. If you want to get really picky, by burning bio-derived fuels we are temporarily preventing carbon from returning to the ground, not that that matters.

"There'd also be fewer wars and their resulting pollution (and deaths and retribution) to worry about."
Absolutely, but I still think this is the greatest benefit of using ethanol!

Julian






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