Trust The Experts
I love these commercials they keep showing on CNN with smart-ass kids telling us how wonderful “clean coal” technology is. Watching a twelve-year-old giving a lecture about energy independence feels as if someone reached into my brain and found a way to broadcast the thoughts that run through my head every time George Bush talks about his energy plans. Like in his recent gushing to ethanol industry, his combination of enthusiasm and arrogance would be boiled down like this :
“Did ya know you can drive a car on this?”
Which is to say that if you want to learn more about energy, don’t trust a coal industry shill who’s too young to drive or a big business whore who can’t tie his own shoes. Or, to beat the trolls to their own punchline, a liberal blogger who’d rather score cheap shots on the President than do some research and write a good post about alternative energy sources.
Also, I dunno where else to put this, so I’ll just mention it here. David Blaine is lame.
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there’s absolutely nothing wrong with being a liberal blogger who’d rather score cheap shots on the preznit than do some research. :-)
Comment by rimone — May 9, 2006 @ 11:20 am
Dear Greg,
Not withstanding the ear of corn that seems to have been extracted from the President’s butt (judging from his demeanor), organic fuels are nothing to dismiss lightly. Just last week “60 Minutes” did a relatively enlightening piece on “E-85″ ethanol fuels. They pointed out that Brazil just announced energy independence using ethanol extracted from sugar cane and “flex-fuel” automobiles produced right here in this great country. See the story:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/04/60minutes/main1588659.shtml
There are many sources for ethanol and slightly used corn cobs may not even be the best source.
Also, diesel engines can be made to run on straight vegetable oil. I am considering converting my diesel automobile using a home-grown straight from Yankee inginuity kit from Greasecar. See the link:
http://www.greasecar.com
Steve Rice.
Comment by Stephen Rice — May 9, 2006 @ 11:30 am
So very freaking lame!
Comment by b — May 9, 2006 @ 2:03 pm
I’m a HYDROGEN nut (1.29 volts dc to separate water)but when I see George with a corncob!!! Believe it or not HEMP produces more biomass per acre per year than corn or trees. 3 to 8 tons.
Comment by Mike Meyer — May 10, 2006 @ 5:42 pm
Actually, I think that with that picture the dubster’s approval rating in Nebraska (where I live, so I can disparage it) just jumped back up over 60%.
Comment by DrD — May 11, 2006 @ 2:49 pm
The problem with dubster’s shill for the ethanol corporations or the hydrogen car is that there has been so little money devoted to research on either, particularly in relationship to other cash cows or all of the money wasted trying to get into ANWR.
Look at the well-to-wheels efficiency of any organic fuel. This is basically the amount of energy required to produce it (in the case of oil, find it, drill it, and pump it, hence the “well”), transport it, refine it, distribute it, and then use it to haul your butt around. Ethanol as a fuel additive–not a fuel in of itself–has just moved above 1, or you can just barely get more energy out of it than what you put in growing, harvesting and processing it. Ethanol just doesn’t have the bang that hydrocarbons do.
Biodiesel is better. Hydrogen is very difficult to transport and is much better if you can produce it at the point of use, which is a good thing that research on solar cells that produce hydrogen is producing results.
Anyway, there have been two alternative candidates that strongly spoke of alternative fuels.
Comment by DrD — May 11, 2006 @ 2:59 pm
Caption: President Cornhole
Comment by jimmarquis — May 11, 2006 @ 5:36 pm
Its said that the ethanol production process is much much more efficient when using a hemp base. Like three times cheaper, and with double or triple production on equal amounts of land.
ummm…grow hemp?
Comment by Kage no Kami — May 12, 2006 @ 1:55 pm