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Posted at 2:40pm on Dec. 4, 2007 Ethanol: The Green Fuel? Part Deux
By Vladimir
People are slowly coming to the realization that it would be a chore to invent a motor fuel that was less efficient and harder on the environment than corn-based ethanol.
Part One of this series documented the impact of high nitrogen and phosphorus in the Gulf of Mexico. Run off from the main agricultural basin of the U.S. causes an algae bloom offshore, which results in a Dead Zone, which this year reached some 8,000 square miles, an area bigger than the state of Connecticut.
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