Five years ago, ethanol was seen as the next big thing to wean the U.S. off foreign oil. Then some studies on the corn-based fuel cast doubt on its environmental benefits, and auto companies turned their attention to hybrids and electric cars.
The hype died off, but the ethanol industry is alive and well, driving a big change in America’s corn consumption.
Rising up out of the corn fields outside Lake Odessa, Mich., is the ethanol refinery for Carbon Green Bioenergy. The company’s CEO, Mitch Miller, says a lot of refineries were popping up when this one was built in 2006.
“Five years ago, ethanol was a craze. It was the next best thing,” he says. Now, not so much. Refineries aren’t being built. Politicians aren’t stopping by with platoons of reporters.
Yet when the ethanol hype went away, the ethanol industry got bigger than ever.
Unable to post on NPR. Please forward:
From a review of events over the past sixty-six years (2012-1946 = 66 yr), it appears that the fear of “nuclear fires” consuming Hiroshima on 6 Aug 1945 compelled world leaders to immediately:
a.) Unite Nations, and in the future to
b.) Hide Information on energy that ignites “nuclear fire”
The UK’s Royal Society, the US National Academy of Sciences, the United Nations and the Noble Prize Committee seem to have worked together to discredit reliable new information on:
1. “Natural nuclear fires” on Earth in 1956
2. “Nuclear fire” in the Sun in 1975, . . 2005
3. “Slow nuclear fires” in cold fusion in 1989
4. “Natural nuclear fires” in planetary cores
The rest of the story, as I see it, is documented here:
http://omanuel.wordpress.com/about/#comment-31
Since 1946, almost every major field of science has been compromised: Astronomy, astrophysics, atomic physics cosmology, climatology, nuclear, particle, planetary, and solar physics.
I encourage you all to respond there so we can benefit from the diversity of opinions.
Thanks to real scientists, skeptics like you,
All is well today,
Oliver K. Manuel
http://www.omatumr.com/
http://omanuel.wordpress.com/about/
E-15 gasoline + salt = phase separation
Filter the salty alcohol through a wad of washed wool to remove traces of hydrocarbons from the ‘aqueous’ phase.
Cheap booze if you don’t mind the salt.
http://ph.news.yahoo.com/doe-require-10-ethanol-blend-starting-saturday-111728916.html
Of course they are thriving. And NPR doesn’t
care who it hurts. NPR – French for JACKASS?