More "Miles Per Acre" From Bioelectricity Than Ethanol

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."

Comments

Units?

[Mikya]

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

Re:Units?

[Bacon Bits]

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

Am I the only one who imagines bioelectricity

[JamesP]

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

Re:mpg is 1/d^2, mpa is 1/d...

[AJWM]

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.

Re:Pretty low standards

[Burkin]

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!

Re:mpg is 1/d^2, mpa is 1/d...

[Anachragnome]

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

Re:Pretty low standards Corn Ethanol

[bwcbwc]

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."