Rural employment in the future
The UCSB channel on cable show the program Renewable Energy and The Future. During the program serveral points were made about how cellulose ethenol would bring more jobs to the US instead of us supporting other counties by buying thier oil. One billion dry tons of corn/strikegrass/other biodigradable product could displace 30% of overseas oil. The benefits to producing this ethenol to rural communites would be
* keep jobs on the farm
-ie stop paying people not to farm.
* Each plant would give 180 skilled people jobs
* Each plant would create 1000 constrution jobs over 2 yrs
* Each plant would create 450 permanent spin-off jobs
* Total increased rural employment would be 600,000 permenant jobs plus 1 million constrution jobs over the next few
decades.
So this ethenol seems like a good deal. It won't solve our energy crises but it would put it off a little longer. Plus if we were to suddenly be unable to purchase very much overseas oil the USA would not grind to a halt without gasoline. I still have some questions about ethenol, like why do they have to mix it with gasoline?
But overall this sounds like a sound idea. In one of my previsus posts I went over solar energy, and the Home Depo project in California. I believe that the home depo program would do much more to solve out energy crises than ethenol ever could. In california Home Depo is teaming up with BP peptroleum and the power company to install solar panels on the houses. When they install the solar panels they put a box up and the power company would give you credits for the power you didn't use. If most of the houses in the USA had this solar power then the eletrical plants would be able to stop burning so much natueral reasourses. We wouldn't have to burn anything. And places with large flat roofs could use this power as an additional revenue source. Places like Meijers and the Malls could have solar panels over the whole roof. Business usually talk about dead space well right now their roofs are dead space, expensive dead space. One cubic foot of solar panel produces 4.5 KW of energy. So places like the Mall which have a mile of roof, well you get the point. With soloving the energy crises there is not one magic fluid that is going to replace gasoline we are going to have to patch together solar power and ethenol to make the US stay the same after the oil is gone.
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The reason you have to have gasoline with your ethenol is for the cold starts. GM however has made a vehicle that will run on 85% ethenol which is almost amazing. Normal vehicles can't drive on more than 10% ethenol. Plus GM has come back with the engine that shuts off four of its cylinders when they aren't needed. That in its self saves between 12% and 15% on fuel expension.
On another note: The solar powered vehicles are way too expensive and not very reliable. But as far as putting them on every home that would be nice. The biggest problem with solar power is that it is so expesive. That in my opinion is something that scientists will have to get around before there is any real production going to be done.
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