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Is there other crops that can be turned into ethanol that would be beneficial for the environment? Can't seem to find information on that.
by titaniumtown 4y ago
Is there other crops that can be turned into ethanol that would be beneficial for the environment? Can't seem to find information on that.
- Sharlin 4y agoSure. As far as I know, corn is only used in the US, for fairly obvious reasons. Where I'm from it's made from carb-rich waste and sidestreams from various sources. Of course, the yields do pale in comparison to the corn megaindustry of the US, which produces more fuel ethanol than the rest of the world combined. Sugar cane is good, and used quite successfully in Brazil, but of course only grows in sub/tropical climates. Sugar beet is used in Europe to some extent, as well as staple crops like wheat and rye – not sure how they compare to corn. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel
- trollerator23 4y agoThere is potatoes. In WW2 the potato production in Nazi Germany basically determined the launch rate of the V2 rocket, which used Ethanol derived from potatoes as fuel.
- ttyprintk 4y agoSome numbers: 26% of the worlds ethanol is grown in Brazil and becomes E22.
- ravenstine 4y agoYes, including sugar beets, sorghum, and even cattails. As far as whether we will or should use other crops, I doubt it. The whole thing with corn mostly came from the US having a large surplus of corn and needing something to do with it. Since we're operating on the false belief that the carbon cycle itself is a bad thing, and because we're trying to move to electric (theoretically), I don't think society is going to invest itself into more ethanol.