Is Biomass efficient enough?

Biomass is a inexpensive product found amongst decomposed material found in tall grass or grass cripplings that could be a possible to be used in the future of many vechiles, but is it practical? Some people wonder if burning wood and the wastes will have some for of influence on the the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide buildup in the atmosphere is a significant cause of global climate change. Fossil fuel combustion takes carbon that was locked away underground (as crude oil and gas) and transfers it to the atmosphere as CO2. When wood is burned, however, it recycles carbon that was already in the natural carbon cycle. Consequently, the net effect of burning wood fuel is that no new CO2 is added to the atmosphere. It could be a reasonable alternative to gasoline that safe for the environment and inexpensive for the current economy.
Many people should see the potential in creating a car that runs on on waste no matter how it ridiculous it sounds. Others fear that it will not produce enough fuel to meet the demand once it hits the makets, but they should not be any worries. According to Jim Motavilli, Rentech, a renewable fuel resource company, is partnering up with SilvaGas Corporation to convert grass crippling into 600 barrels of diesel daily;enough to produce 64 gigawats of renewable power for at least 30,000 homes. This form of energy could help us waste less petroleum and rely on trying to make biofuel more into use than before. Though there are some cars that could run on waste in the market, some vehicles could easily be damaged by using this kind of fuel if they are not.

Ethanol: A Bad Alternative?

Though the environment continues to change rapidly due to human actions, people are beginning to realize some potential alternative fuel resource that could be safe to consume for the enviroment. Ethanol has been swarming around people's heads for years as a alternative to petroleum next to biomass.Using corn may have been seen as a clever idea for a alternative fuel, but it could endanger our wallets even further if it was handled carelessly.

At first, corn ethanol has not been deemed a threat to our environment, but a threat to the economy. People would have to pay "71 one cents in environmental and health cost," for gasoline while a corn ethanol user will have to pay around "72 to $1.45 in environmental and health cost."(Perterka) Segelken argues that the price of corn would raise as well as the"price of meat, milk and eggs because 70 percent of corn grain is fed to livestock and poultry in the United States."

People should not fear that corn ethanol is dangerous to our economic state, it needs to further develop in time to see its affects in all its entirety. Recently corn production has more efficient than ever than before by placing cattle feedlots close to ethanol plants which cuts about 30% of the energy used, according to Carey.Fuel production has to be stable enough to be able manage to meet such demands throughout the world.

Sources:
http://www.businessweek.com/investing/green_business/archives/2009/02/how_bad_is_corn.html
http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/02/03/study-finds-corn-ethanol-just-as-bad-as-gasoline/
http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/01/8.23.01/Pimentel-ethanol.html