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Ethanol – is it even possible?

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on April 30, 2007 at 4:34 pm

From the Sacramento Bee:

Businesses in California are racing to build plants to make ethanol, a substitute for gasoline that may or may not (depending on the study) lower greenhouse gas emissions. But it will take the state’s most fought-over resource — water — to grow the crops used to produce ethanol.

Many crops can be used for that purpose, but at the moment ethanol plants are picking corn — the most water-intensive ethanol crop there is. How much water? How much corn? The answer is startling.

For the rest of the article, click here.

Here’s a version of the same article at the Modesto Bee, which I don’t think requires registration – click here.

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April 30, 2007 · Filed Under General Water Issues

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