Sunday, May 18, 2008
Cow Power!
In my last blog entry before this one I wasn't saying we should eliminate Ethanol completly from the picture, I just think there are other ways of creating fuel that are less harmful to our enviornment and could possibly be cheaper. We can't just have one fuel source for the entire to run on. We need multiple sources of energy and there are plenty out there most of us just havent thought of them, like cows for instance. They contribute to the release of methane a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon. The smelly farms these cows live on that you pass by when your going through the country are an untapped source of fuel. Well it's actually not completly untapped, dairy farmers in Vermont are running on "Cow Power" and "In Longmont, Co Heartland Renewable energy plans to have a plant fed by the power of 50,000 cows online within 6mo." Said Alastair Bland from his article Boom Heat Magic.
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Butanol is better then ethanol.
I looked up Butanol on Wikipedia and it told me that it can be produced from biomass (biobutanol) as well as fossil fuels (petrobutanol)and that some call this biofuel biobutanol to reflect its origin, although it has the same chemical properties as butanol produced from petroleum. I'm no scientist but it seems to me there would be a big difference between a fuel which came from a bio source verses a petroleum source. You are right in that it does appear to be better than ethanol in that some cars can run on it without any alteration at all. Have you seen this being sold at a gasoline station somewhere? If so tell me where because I'd like to test it!
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