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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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      The road to tyranny has always been paved with claims of necessity.
  2. 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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    -- Alastair
  3. 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!

  4. 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.