Re: Gas: How Much Are You Paying?
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Originally Posted by Kaminyu
Hydrogen and ethanol have their drawbacks as well. Ethanol requires more fuel to be created, than it actually creates. Plus, the arable land that is required to grow the stuff, is needed for food production. The food crisis today is a direct result of this. Hydrogen has the same problem, that it requires more energy than it actually produces. On top of that, it is insanely expensive in production and in purchasing. Plus, it's still in the experimental stages and decades (at the earliest) from being ready to scale on an industrial level.
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Any production of energy requires more input than there is output...there's always loss and waste. It's just transforming the one kind of energy into a useful form.
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