[Bioconversion] Reply to Peter/Belize

[Jeff Davis]

Peter wrote:
> http://www.du.edu/~jcalvert/phys/dischg.htm

Peter, what a gold mine of information you find.

HOME:
http://www.du.edu/~jcalvert/index.htm


Snippet:
"Let us now find the amount of carbon released to produce 1 kcal of energy
(1 Btu = 0.252 kcal) for each of the fuels. The results are: coal, 0.138
g/kcal; methane, 0.0818 g/kcal; ethanol, 0.110 g/kcal; octane 0.0737
g/kcal. The surprising fact is that octane (gasoline) is the best of the
four fuels, emitting roughly half the carbon than an equivalent amount of
coal. Ethanol, very heavily promoted now, is not far from methane in
carbon production, and produces 50% more carbon than gasoline, which it is
currently proposed to replace!"




Jeff





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Jeff Davis

Some where 20 miles south of Lake Erie, USA