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."

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While 1 cargo ship belches out...

[BigGar']

pollution equal to 50 million cars annually. Just 15 of these ships = the entire worlds auto output (SO2/SoX) There are 19,000 ocean going cargo ships, granted of various sizes.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/apr/09/shipping-pollution.

While I'm not complaining about making car emissions cleaner lets start looking at making some of the current big offenders cleaner.