>>13257603I don't know. I only know about Ethanol ICE. It is more cost-effective, especially in that it is easier to build more exotic, smaller, lighter-weight combustion engines with it. I needed something for a project of mine, realized ethanol is not much worse then gas and better than a tree stump, then fell down the rabbit hole.
Biofuels are probably shit intentionally, a way to make money off cheap land in Brazil and government subsidies. All you need to know is, where once well over 100,000 independent fuel ethanol producers existed in the USA, now there are maybe 4 (FOUR, not forty or four hundred) massive companies incapable of breaking-even versus oil.
Consider this. Carter wanted to respond to the oil crisis with oil-producing bacteria. Reagan cancelled that project for no reason at all, and Bush even invaded the middle east. However, why not create an efficient alcohol-producing algae instead? Probably jet fuel is better with hydrocarbons, but everything else on earth is better with alcohol.
>>13257623First, the world has too many people. Get rid of them. More importantly, our industry and logistics is inefficient. Instead of, for example, shipping oil from Alaska to California then back as gas, expand oil refineries as oil terminii. But that doesn't happen. Oil producers are not allowed to be oil refineries to such a degree, not anywhere on Earth except maybe CA.
Alcohol fuel is not the same as biodiesel. Biofuels of that kind are a scam.
The main thing with alcohol is that you can produce it industrially. You can look-up ideas others have come up with for ocean-bound solar farms powering methanol generation. The middle of the ocean is mostly lifeless, so just spam alcohol factories the same way we currently spam oil fascilities.
The second thing is that ethanol can be produced at home. You can be off-grid. I'm not aware of anyone that actually does this. Even mennonites use diesel fuel generators.
Grow: short logistics. Factory: oil replacemnt
