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More "Miles Per Acre" From Bioelectricity Than Ethanol

Posted by timothy on from the all-depends-on-the-details dept.

CarnegieScience writes "Scientist calculate that, compared to ethanol used for internal combustion engines, bioelectricity used for battery-powered vehicles would deliver an average of 80% more miles of transportation per acre of crops, while also providing double the greenhouse gas offsets to mitigate climate change."

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  1. Units? by Mikya · · Score: 5, Funny

    Miles per acre? What's that in rods per hogsheads?

    1. Re:Units? by Bacon+Bits · · Score: 4, Funny

      Some of us live in the United States, you ethnocentric insensitive clod!

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    2. Re:Units? by Anonymous+Crowhead · · Score: 2, Funny

      Put it in "H"!!!

  2. Am I the only one who imagines bioelectricity by JamesP · · Score: 3, Funny

    As a bunch of (electric) eels tied with electric cord??

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  3. Re:mpg is 1/d^2, mpa is 1/d... by AJWM · · Score: 4, Funny

    Great, now I have this vision stuck in my head of a gasoline-soaked thread stretching out down the road, with a car spooling it up and wringing the gas out to fuel the engine. That's just weird.

    I salute you, sir.

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  4. Re:Pretty low standards by Burkin · · Score: 4, Funny

    So saying that NNN technology is X% better than bioethanol is like saying that doing X is less painful than scraping off your penile foreskin with a cheese grater.

    But I'm a masochist you insensitive clod!

  5. Bioelectricity = Matrix by Anenome · · Score: 2, Funny

    Morpheus: "The human body generates more bio- electricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 B.T.U.'s of body heat."

    Now we just need some poor saps to lock into an energy-harvesting pod while we jack their mind into The Sims 24/7... actually that sounds like a special kind of hell. Perhaps we can give them their choice. Some might choose to live in WoW 24/7... actually some choose to live in WoW 24/7 -already-... perhaps they would be the first to volunteer! It's like getting corporate sponsorship AND never having to shower again, WIN WIN!

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  6. Re:mpg is 1/d^2, mpa is 1/d... by Anachragnome · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or in the case of a Hummer, a garden hose.

  7. Re:Pretty low standards Corn Ethanol by bwcbwc · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wait. Corn? Switchgrass? I thought bio-electricity was about breeding electric eels.

    Too bad "Put an eel in your tank" has a completely different connotation from "Put a tiger in your tank."

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