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Originally Posted by lazysmurff
biodiesel is a great idea, until you consider the mass amount of land needed to farm the crops to make the stuff, then it becomes a pretty ludicrous product.
people need to stop trying to find a bandaid solution, suck it up, and develope an effecient, worthwhile, electric motor.
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There's plenty of farmland all across the U.S. that can be used to grow switchgrass to cultivate BD. That or the algae method. Don't ask me the details because I don't remember. And anyway, it's no mure ludicrous than setting up solar panels everywhere, or windmills all over the place, or even fighting wars over oil
The motor isn't the problem, smurff, its the generation, transmission, and storage of the electricity to RUN said motor that's the problem. Until scientists can figure out how to
effectively and practically harness nuclear fusion power, and then a way to store mass amounts of electricity in a lightweight and somewhat safe storage system, then electric cars are useless for all except those who drive very short distances and or seldomly drive.
I feel pretty safe in saying that scientists will in fact make nuclear fusion work, but until then, i say that BD is the way to go. I'm all for less dependance on foreign oil. Not like we're running out anyway. That's just what the oil companies WANT you to think so that they're justified in jacking the prices to (currently) $65+ a barrel. That and so called 'political instability'.
Its funny how very similar Major oil companies and DeBeers is...
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