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Biodiesel's water footprint? 14,000 liters per liter of biofuel

We recently heard that, according to one group of researchers at Environmental Science & Technology magazine, corn ethanol has a water cost of 50 gallons per mile. Now, a team working from the University of Twente in the Netherlands has calculated the water cost of ethanol and other biofuels and to make bioelectricity. The results are not pretty. The researchers looked at 13 crops and tried to calculate the most efficient way to turn them into energy depending on where the crops were grown, and which process was used to turn the biomass ... Read more →

50 gallons per mile?!? That's the water cost of corn-based ethanol Sebastian Blanco

The nail in the coffin of corn-based ethanol might be made of water. The magazine Environmental Science & Technology has published an article that pegs the amount of water needed to make enough ...

Biodiesel's water footprint? 14,000 liters per liter of biofuel 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

50 gallons per mile?!? That's the water cost of corn-based ethanol 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

The nail in the coffin of corn-based ethanol might be made of water. The magazine Environmental Science & Technology has published an article that pegs the amount of water needed to make enough corn ethanol to move a vehicle one mile at 50 gallons. That's pretty high. ES&T calculated the ...

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