Score Another One for EV Technology
May. 8th, 2009 10:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
webfarmerThere's a whole lot less fooling around with this approach. Grow switchgrass or corn stover, burn it in a boiler, make electricity charge your batteries and go.
Bioelectricity Promises More 'Miles Per Acre" Than Ethanol - Science Daily - 08 May 09
"Researchers writing in the online edition of the journal Science on May 7 say the best bet is to convert the biomass to electricity, rather than ethanol. They calculate that, compared to ethanol used for internal combustion engines, bioelectricity used for battery-powered vehicles would deliver an average of 80% more miles of transportation per acre of crops, while also providing double the greenhouse gas offsets to mitigate climate change.
'It's a relatively obvious question once you ask it, but nobody had really asked it before,' says study co-author Chris Field, director of the Department of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institution. 'The kinds of motivations that have driven people to think about developing ethanol as a vehicle fuel have been somewhat different from those that have been motivating people to think about battery electric vehicles, but the overlap is in the area of maximizing efficiency and minimizing adverse impacts on climate.'"
Bioelectricity Promises More 'Miles Per Acre" Than Ethanol - Science Daily - 08 May 09
"Researchers writing in the online edition of the journal Science on May 7 say the best bet is to convert the biomass to electricity, rather than ethanol. They calculate that, compared to ethanol used for internal combustion engines, bioelectricity used for battery-powered vehicles would deliver an average of 80% more miles of transportation per acre of crops, while also providing double the greenhouse gas offsets to mitigate climate change.
'It's a relatively obvious question once you ask it, but nobody had really asked it before,' says study co-author Chris Field, director of the Department of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institution. 'The kinds of motivations that have driven people to think about developing ethanol as a vehicle fuel have been somewhat different from those that have been motivating people to think about battery electric vehicles, but the overlap is in the area of maximizing efficiency and minimizing adverse impacts on climate.'"
