So I was listening to Inciting a Riot: Episode 29 yesterday (another triumph though I haven't quite finished listening to it) and dear Fire Lyte and Velma Nightshade were making musings about the recent off-shore oil spill near Louisiana. They went on to discuss biofuels and water powered cars...Here's where I come in hehe.
Though many countries have become oil independent and now rely on biofuels they are not being produced from sustainable sources. Oh no siree! Biofuels made of sugar bi-products are actually stripping, once affluent land of all its nature nutrients. In fact this is done to the point at which the soil becomes sand, utterly barren. Obviously, this poses a further problem as farming then has to move to better land. Better land being, oh I dunno, the vast ecological works of the rainforest. Yup, as friendly and as nice as it seems biofuels actually cause deforestation and desertification. Not very good for the Earth at all.
And whilst water seems like a good way to go, we will eventually run out of that too. When we drink water, use water, some of it is lost. Broken down into its basic components and that's the way it stays. If we used distilled water (I assume the engine Fire Lyte referred to used pure water) in all the engines in the world it was mean producing millions upon millions of litres of distilled water. That could eventually lead to a massive decline in the water available to us, even if we made it from combing oxygen and hydrogen ourselves.
Now, from what I've dug up it appears that the best form of eco-friendly, sustainable fuel is hydrogen. Hydrogen goes into the car, water comes out. Genius as far as I can tell. Now if they could get a car to run on CO2 that'd be magic. Well, they've taken a step in the right direction here: Scientists use sunlight to make fuel from CO2. It'd be like a fuel powered tree!! But why, when this article was written in 2008, has it not been further introduced and marketed?
So tell me readers, what sort of fuel best suits you? Is there a place in our world for eco-friendly fuel development? Have your say!!
Love to all,
Aria xxx
Though many countries have become oil independent and now rely on biofuels they are not being produced from sustainable sources. Oh no siree! Biofuels made of sugar bi-products are actually stripping, once affluent land of all its nature nutrients. In fact this is done to the point at which the soil becomes sand, utterly barren. Obviously, this poses a further problem as farming then has to move to better land. Better land being, oh I dunno, the vast ecological works of the rainforest. Yup, as friendly and as nice as it seems biofuels actually cause deforestation and desertification. Not very good for the Earth at all.
And whilst water seems like a good way to go, we will eventually run out of that too. When we drink water, use water, some of it is lost. Broken down into its basic components and that's the way it stays. If we used distilled water (I assume the engine Fire Lyte referred to used pure water) in all the engines in the world it was mean producing millions upon millions of litres of distilled water. That could eventually lead to a massive decline in the water available to us, even if we made it from combing oxygen and hydrogen ourselves.
Now, from what I've dug up it appears that the best form of eco-friendly, sustainable fuel is hydrogen. Hydrogen goes into the car, water comes out. Genius as far as I can tell. Now if they could get a car to run on CO2 that'd be magic. Well, they've taken a step in the right direction here: Scientists use sunlight to make fuel from CO2. It'd be like a fuel powered tree!! But why, when this article was written in 2008, has it not been further introduced and marketed?
So tell me readers, what sort of fuel best suits you? Is there a place in our world for eco-friendly fuel development? Have your say!!
Love to all,
Aria xxx
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