Comments on: ISO Efficient Bioenergy: Ethanol Verses Bioelectricity http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/08/04/iso-bioenergy-ethanol-verses-bioelectricity/ News & commentary on sustainability, activism, urban planning, politics, and our world. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:32:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ‘Woody’ Biomass Breakthrough: Fungus is the Key : Planetsave http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/08/04/iso-bioenergy-ethanol-verses-bioelectricity/comment-page-1/#comment-124976 ‘Woody’ Biomass Breakthrough: Fungus is the Key : Planetsave Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:09:15 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/?p=3441#comment-124976 [...] A forest is far more useful–in terms of ‘ecosystem services–as a carbon sink, than as a fuel source. Also, biomass conversion to electricity (bioelectricity) is significantly more efficient than its conversion to liquid fuel (see my older, ecolocalizer article: ISO Efficient Bioenergy: Ethanol vs. Bioelectricity) [...] [...] A forest is far more useful–in terms of ‘ecosystem services–as a carbon sink, than as a fuel source. Also, biomass conversion to electricity (bioelectricity) is significantly more efficient than its conversion to liquid fuel (see my older, ecolocalizer article: ISO Efficient Bioenergy: Ethanol vs. Bioelectricity) [...]

]]> By: Sirroman http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/08/04/iso-bioenergy-ethanol-verses-bioelectricity/comment-page-1/#comment-61642 Sirroman Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:44:17 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/?p=3441#comment-61642 The problem of electricity: to "show an average of 81% more transportation kilometers and 108 % more GHG offsets" 100% of the country's energy should come from bioelectricity. That's impratical, inefficient and would be disastrous. How the electricity powered cars are compared to ethanol-powered ones when we account Coal energy? Will this bioelectricity be cheaper then Coal? Besides, everybody with common sense already knows that corn isn't the way to go. Corn isn't "less sustainable", it's "unsustainable". I still believe energy is the future, but only when our energy-grid is clean *and* cheap, otherwise we are just blindfolding ourselves. Everybody, let's cross our fingers and pray that General Fusion (Vancouver, Canada) is successful in their new fusion power plant! (http://thefutureofthings.com/headline/7650/a-new-approach-to-fusion.html) The problem of electricity: to “show an average of 81% more transportation kilometers and 108 % more GHG offsets” 100% of the country’s energy should come from bioelectricity. That’s impratical, inefficient and would be disastrous. How the electricity powered cars are compared to ethanol-powered ones when we account Coal energy? Will this bioelectricity be cheaper then Coal?

Besides, everybody with common sense already knows that corn isn’t the way to go. Corn isn’t “less sustainable”, it’s “unsustainable”.

I still believe energy is the future, but only when our energy-grid is clean *and* cheap, otherwise we are just blindfolding ourselves. Everybody, let’s cross our fingers and pray that General Fusion (Vancouver, Canada) is successful in their new fusion power plant! (http://thefutureofthings.com/headline/7650/a-new-approach-to-fusion.html)

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