Setting the Record Straight on Ethanol
1st Nov 2005, 19:17 GMT
(Renewable Energy Access) Biofuels, and specifically ethanol, have been the subject of a great deal of criticism in recent months by detractors claiming that more energy is required to produce ethanol than is available in the final product, that it is too expensive, and that it produces negligible carbon reductions...A common complaint about ethanol is that the quantity of feedstocks is limited and land used to grow feedstocks could be put to better use...Research by Oak Ridge National Laboratory shows that dedicated energy crops can be grown without competing with food crops because they can be grown in marginal areas unsuited for food crop production, or on about 17 million acres of Conservation Reserve Program land that is currently being withheld from agricultural use...10/31
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