There is nothing new about biofuels or fuels derived from plants such as trees and corn. People have been using them since the dawn of history, when people started burning them to cook and heat houses. [emphasis, links added]
But after the discovery of oil in 1859, oil became a cheap alternative to biofuels when Texas and Oklahoma supply a lot.
Fossil fuels allow humans to experience great prosperity and technological development. Our civilization is based on affordable energy from oil, gas and coal.
However, the United Nations Intergovernmental Climate Change (IPCC) (IPCC) has no evidence that the release of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion has caused the Earth's average temperature to rise.
The United Nations has listed 17 Sustainable Development Goals that we want to achieve the future of the planet by 2030.
In Goal #7, they want to replace fossil fuels with “renewable energy”: solar and wind and biofuels, which they say “accessible, affordable, reliable, reliable and environmentally sustainable.”
20% of all “renewable energy” currently in use are biofuels. But are biofuels really “affordable and clean”?
One type of biofuel, ethanol or ethanol, is made from corn sugar or sugar cane sugar, the same type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages. Ethanol is mixed with gasoline by 10% or 15%.
In the 1970s, OPEC (the organization of oil exporters) rose on a whim and cut oil exports to raise oil prices, creating fuel shortages and false energy crises.
Due to fuel shortages, gasoline prices are high and people have to discharge long lines on air pumps. This development has allowed the government to shift their interests to biofuels.
In the United States, a group of Democrats led by Congressman Henry Waxman reached a deal with Agribusiness.
In exchange for financial support for the political movement, they designed a task to fuse corn-derived ethanol with gasoline into an amendment to the 1990 Clean Air Act.
But they were completely wrong. There is no supply in demand for oil. There are now about 65,000 known oil fields, many of which are huge. More than 900 of these oil fields contain at least 500 million barrels.
So far, only about 8% of the world's known reserves have been used. A large amount of natural gas was also found.
Government policymakers must now realize that there is no shortage of oil and gas. However, this knowledge did not stop them from continuing to demand the use of ethanol in gasoline.
In the United States alone, only 15 billion gallons of ethanol are produced in the United States. Shockingly, 45% of all corn grown in the United States is used to make ethanol.
Millions of acres of Virgin grasslands and wetlands were cultivated for the first time in order to produce ethanol.
This is a supplement to protect five million acres of farmland – More than Yellowstone, Everglades and Yosemite National Park combined – The Obama administration disappeared in the Obama administration.
This land conversion usually occurs in ecologically sensitive areas, resulting in habitat loss or damage to wildlife.
The increased use of nitrate fertilizer in growing these crops has resulted in large amounts of nitrate entering streams and rivers, contaminating the water supply. Cleaning this water becomes very expensive.
And ethanol is not even a good fuel!
Marv Klowak of Briggs & Stratton confirmed that “ethanol has inherent properties that can cause corrosion of metal parts, including degradation of carburetors, plastic and rubber components, harder startups and reduced engine life. The higher the ethanol content, the more urgent the effect.transparent
Use gasoline with over 10% ethanol for warranty operations on most small engines. Unless its engine is specifically modified, fuel with 15% ethanol (called E85) cannot be used in a vehicle.
If the ethanol does not burn within 60 days, it will attenuate. This is because ethanol fuel is hygroscopic. They attract water. Therefore, fuel separation may occur and damage the engine's carburetor. The fuel that decays in this way contains varnish and sludge.
One gallon of gasoline can provide 116,900 BTU [British Thermal Units] energy. However, when burning a gallon of ethanol, it only provides 76,000 btus, about 2/3 of the energy of gasoline.
Therefore, the vehicle has less revenue per gallon gasoline/ethanol mixture per gallon gasoline/ethanol mixture compared to pure gasoline.
However, the cost of producing a gallon of ethanol from corn is $3.95. The only way for ethanol producers to continue their business is through government subsidies. How could this be a sustainable energy source?
It takes 131,000 BTU to make a gallon of ethanol.
Professor David Pimentel of Cornell University said, “The energy required to produce ethanol is about 70% more than the energy contained in ethanol. Whenever you make a gallon of ethanol, the net energy loss is 54,000 BTU. ”
He also reported that “Using corn for ethanol has led to a sharp rise in prices for beef, chicken, pork, eggs, bread, cereals and milk in the United States, a boon for agribusiness and a scourge for consumers.”
There are now biofuel requirements in more than 60 countries, and agricultural land competition between ethanol and food has become an ethical issue.
Groups such as Oxfam and the Environmental Working Group oppose biofuels because they create food shortages and raise food prices.
Professor Benjamin Senauer wrote:The large amount of corn needed by the ethanol industry is sending shock waves through the food system. … By putting pressure on the supply of global edible crops, the surge in ethanol production will translate into higher prices for global processed and staple foods. ”
Could this be part of the food inflation we are witnessing today?
The United Nations itself says “More than 600 million people around the world will face hunger in 2030…The high food prices continue to plague many countries…Malnutrition continues to exist, endangering the well-being of children and future development. ”
How does biofuel requirements help this?
“We've witnessed the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history,” said Lester Brown, global resource analyst at the Institute for Earth Policy. “The U.S. efforts to reduce oil insecurity by converting grains into automobile fuel are creating global food insecurity on an unprecedented scale.”
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported that the world food price index rose by 45% during the 2008 food crisis. But, whatever you believe, “artificial climate change” is accused of these rising food prices!
Government subsidies for the corn industry include tax breaks, grants, loans and loan guarantees. The subsidy averages $1.65 per gallon and your taxes will come in.
Just as ethanol is mixed with gasoline, biodiesel (mostly from soybean oil) is also mixed with petroleum diesel. Biodiesel fuel is a mixture of about 80% diesel from petroleum and 20% biodiesel.
In the United States, approximately 86.3 million acres of soybeans will be planted in the 2024-2025 season, producing approximately 14 billion pounds of biodiesel soybean oil. This is a lot of area.
Biodiesel costs $1.80 more than regular diesel. Therefore, it also received subsidies, losing $5.4 billion in taxpayers each year. There are $1 per gallon tax incentives for using biodiesel.
Since the dawn of civilization, wood has been used for energy. This is not a new technology.
However, the BBC learned that Drax, a British power company that supplies about 5% of UK electricity, has been burning wood from some of the world's most precious forests.
They recorded the evidence Wood from a virgin forest in British Columbia was cut and transformed into wood pellets that were transported for 5,000 miles to burn the power plant.
Just transporting all this wood requires a lot of fossil fuel.
There is a large supply of coal in the UK, which they use to mine coal. Interestingly, Drax is a former coal-fired power plant. The coal that used to be used at the Drax plant did not have to be transported more than 5,000 miles. So, how can this policy alleviate the “climate crisis”?
Wood imported from outside the EU is considered a renewable source of zero carbon fuel. As a result, the U.S. Congress declared that almost all forest biomass in the United States was carbon-free.
But declaring a “carbon-free” substance does not make it carbon-free. In 2023, the United States exported about 8.6 million tons of wood fuel pellets.
Advocates of biofuels claim that the burning of these plants is “neutral” because trees absorb carbon dioxide when they grow. But it will take 40 to 70 years to regenerate the forest.
What's worse is that when these trees are cut down, The soil microorganisms located under the cutting tree are released into the atmosphere like the tree itself burns.
Therefore, when trees are cut down and burned, carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere three times the amount of coal of the same energy.
In the flawed energy survey system of the “green” bureaucrat, the practice of burning wood is considered superior to the combustion of coal.
Never thought about the energy needed to clear the forest, convert the wood into particles, and then transport large amounts of wood to thousands of miles to burn energy.
However, this practice is praised by people who consider “green” as a great achievement.
Now, this practice is as many as all other uses of wood around the world: architecture, furniture, paper, etc. But it meets only a small percentage of Europe's energy needs, accounting for about 5%.
Renewable Energy Directive (RED) has been stated This goal is to double the 5% figure, “procure from the vast majority of wood, which will use about 50% of the annual wood harvest in Europe.”
When setting a target for renewable energy levels in Europe by 2030, The EU has enacted a qualifying for reducing the forests to burn in power plants as zero-carbon, renewable energy.
They did so after nearly 800 scientists warned them of the policy Increase carbon dioxide emissions.
At the 2017 COP conference, countries in rainforests, including Indonesia and Brazil, jointly stated that their goal was to “increase the use of wood … as part of efforts to limit climate change.”
An article in 2018 “Natural Communication” says, “If the world is 2% of the world’s major energy sources with wood, it will need to double its industrial wood harvest.”
But this is The worst Part of the problem: It has no way Carbon dioxide has been proven to be a temperature control knob. Carbon dioxide is a trace gas that accounts for only 0.04 in 1% of the atmosphere.
But even if carbon dioxide causes the Earth's temperature to rise, the use of biofuels will never solve this situation.
Please study this topic further, communicate with people you know, and ask your elected representative to work to end the horrible practice of using biofuels for energy.
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