Transport needs to do a lot more to fight climate change
Transport is the second biggest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the world, accounting for more than one fifth of all emissions. But progress in reducing these emissions is among the slowest of all sectors, warns Eric Sievers. Eric Sievers is investment director of Ethanol Europe, which is part of the Climate Ethanol Alliance.
Me, "I am a big proponent of Ethanol blending with Gasoline to reduce Green House Gas emissions and it is true that ICE (Internal Combustion Engines will be on the road for at least a few decades until electric cars, and trucks can take over. So, it makes sense to find a way of producing less greenhouse emissions Ethanol does this and can be used as a filler to use less gasoline in a car.
I just believe there are easier ways of producing Ethanol than using fertilizer (Which uses CH4 Methane to create the fertilizer), to grow corn, and then a ethanol plant that basically uses Ethanol fermentation to produce Ethanol."
From Wikipedia, (Ethanol fermentation, also called alcoholic fermentation, is a biological process which converts sugars such as glucose, fructose, and sucrose into cellular energy, producing ethanol and carbon dioxide as by-products.)
Me, "The problem with Ethanol Fermentation is that it uses a lot of energy to produce Ethanol. It uses so much that it is debatable if this type of ethanol production makes sense. Your using just as much energy put in to it as you get out of it and your reducing the amount of corn that people can eat driving up food prices. Also as a by product your producing extra CO2.
There is a new way of producing Ethanol from Water, Carbon Dioxide and a carbon, copper, nitrogen catalyst. It just needs electricity to get the whole process moving.
From article, https://www.energy.gov/…/scientists-accidentally-turned-co2…(The team used a catalyst made of carbon, copper and nitrogen and applied voltage to trigger a complicated chemical reaction that essentially reverses the combustion process. With the help of the nanotechnology-based catalyst -- which contains multiple reaction sites -- the solution of carbon dioxide dissolved in water turned into ethanol with a yield of 63 percent. Typically, this type of electrochemical reaction results in a mix of several different products in small amounts.)
This type of Ethanol production can be simplified by getting the electricity from a wind turbine, water from a local river, lake etc, and the CO2 from the air. There is no fermentation, which means this type of Ethanol creation is less energy intensive and makes more sense as a way of producing economic Ethanol."
There is a new way of producing Ethanol from Water, Carbon Dioxide and a carbon, copper, nitrogen catalyst. It just needs electricity to get the whole process moving.
From article, https://www.energy.gov/…/scientists-accidentally-turned-co2…(The team used a catalyst made of carbon, copper and nitrogen and applied voltage to trigger a complicated chemical reaction that essentially reverses the combustion process. With the help of the nanotechnology-based catalyst -- which contains multiple reaction sites -- the solution of carbon dioxide dissolved in water turned into ethanol with a yield of 63 percent. Typically, this type of electrochemical reaction results in a mix of several different products in small amounts.)
This type of Ethanol production can be simplified by getting the electricity from a wind turbine, water from a local river, lake etc, and the CO2 from the air. There is no fermentation, which means this type of Ethanol creation is less energy intensive and makes more sense as a way of producing economic Ethanol."
From article, (Road transport is over 90% reliant on fossil oil and transport CO2 emissions are still growing. They grew by 2.5% annually between 2010 and 2015 globally and are on track to become the largest GHG emitting sector, especially in developed countries.
If Europe wants to reduce carbon emissions in transport it will need to rely on the use of ethanol as well. It is a proven clean technology, getting better all the time, available at the scale needed to tackle transport’s climate challenge.
Ethanol cuts GHG emissions from petrol by more than half and is promoted by most major industrial nations in the world. The US has for more than a decade had policies in place to increase the share of ethanol use. Brazil has the highest share of ethanol use globally, recently raising it to 27% of transport fuels.
China has just announced that E10 (a blend of 10% ethanol in petrol) will be introduced by 2020. India is aiming at E10 by 2022. Canada and other Asian and American countries are also following suit with similar measures considered.
The climate benefit of ethanol used as a transport fuel is recognised globally. The UNFCCC agrees that ethanol and other sustainable biofuels have an important role to play in decarbonisation for decades ahead.
Transport’s main fuel will still be fossil-fuel based even in 2040. Modal shift, energy taxation, internalisation of the billions of dollars of negative externalities of oil, are insufficient to reach the Paris Agreement goals.
If Europe wants achieve its goal of decarbonising EU transport it simply needs a mix of renewable energy solutions — including low-emission fuels such as sustainably produced and renewable European ethanol.
It has 64% greenhouse gas savings on average, compared with petrol It is also the most cost-effective way to reduce emissions in transport. EU can count on it today to achieve the non-ETS.)
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