I've modified my car to have it run on 3 people pushing it. Works great for getting around town.
@kubel835 жыл бұрын
qqq1701 hahahahhahhhahahahha omg 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍👍👍👍
@allanrichardson14685 жыл бұрын
Is that a Trabant? Hint: the rear window defroster keeps your hands warm.
@Hamsterbytes5 жыл бұрын
I just use hamsters .
@pietrojenkins69015 жыл бұрын
That's called renewed slavery and i'm surprised you're proud of it.
@qqq17015 жыл бұрын
@@pietrojenkins6901 Oh? Please explain how it's slavery.
@Master_Therion5 жыл бұрын
Early on, Soviet rocket scientists discovered a major flaw with using ethanol as fuel. It kept mysteriously disappearing. True story.
@sebastianelytron84505 жыл бұрын
Yeah, "disappeared" like millions of their own citizens.
@arnoldshmitt49695 жыл бұрын
@@sebastianelytron8450 yeah disappeared into their stomach lol
@CstriderNNS5 жыл бұрын
that is because the solders wher drinking it...
@CstriderNNS5 жыл бұрын
@array s ya, they where burning ethenol, because the Nazies cut off there oil supply. from my understanding this is what they where drinking
@orion7895 жыл бұрын
LMAO
@ruanrossato95415 жыл бұрын
Here in Brazil, most cars are called "flex", which means they can run on both gasoline and ethanol, at the same time. It helps spread the use of biofuels here, because ethanol is not always cheaper. It is such a common practice to run to the gas station and calculate which fuel is cheaper that the manufacturers include some conversion tables printed in the car.
@fuguthefish5 жыл бұрын
Wierd flex but okay
@pietrojenkins69015 жыл бұрын
Ethanol makes food costlier bcuz so much corn is redirected to fuel rather than food.
@rodrigoweingartner5 жыл бұрын
Pietro Jenkins we don’t use corn ;)
@hasher22655 жыл бұрын
@@pietrojenkins6901: Not necessarily. The sugar cane waste for example is processed into ethanol.
@fionafiona11465 жыл бұрын
@@pietrojenkins6901 Not in Brazil, were food byproducts are abundant, while they export soy and Co.
@philipeanthonybattung38605 жыл бұрын
The problem is not the research speed but the government and oil corporations you're clashing on.
@liquidluck7115 жыл бұрын
When Europe has cars getting over 60 mpg for decades. Or when Asia has hydro powered cars and better mpg cars or when.....oil companies are evil as all get out and our Gov bending over for their money and right to rule is even eviler and the most evil thing of all...the Americans unwillingness to uproot evil from which it stands
@leerman225 жыл бұрын
Which is why the US government gives corn and sugarcane subsidies to make ethanol. All the sugar farms are polluting the waterways of Florida creating toxic algae.
@momsspaghetti99705 жыл бұрын
They only do this because of profit and its availability. You really think these corpos want to make the change at the expense of money and profit?
@zuutlmna4 жыл бұрын
Exactly. The gov'ts run on greenhouse gas hysteria and legislation (skillfullly put together by oil company legal scholars/teams) geared to deter research/development, which, thus far, has been very effective at stopping both research as well as much interest in such research..
@lecoureurdesbois863 жыл бұрын
More like the EV agenda* Big oil companies: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3PRi4eelspqpJI They would rather make fuel and money. And I would rather have fuel than electric car. Because vroom vroom
@RobertAdoniasCostaGomes5 жыл бұрын
let's make it better... why don't YOU have access to functional biofuels? ...because you're not in Brazil or Sweden
@3800S15 жыл бұрын
@Håkan Lundberg In Australia we have e85 ethanol fuel available from some fuel stations. It is produced as a byproduct of the grain industry here. It's a popular fuel here for performance cars and race cars as it performs much better than regular petrol in performance engines. I have used it myself and its great.
@3800S15 жыл бұрын
@Håkan Lundberg Yes it's a lot warmer here so we don't have the starting issues on ethanol fuels. New cars that can run on it is uncommon here but it is popular for modified performance cars so I guess that is why they must still sell it.
@sahinyasar91195 жыл бұрын
nope because our country wont let you get to functional biofuels
@cud0s5 жыл бұрын
Håkan Bråkan Lundberg Finland (Neste) produces biodiesel which can be used in regular cars without issues
@gomesloebmann4 жыл бұрын
@Maverick Hargrave Hello, Maverick Hargrave! I would like to disagree with you, if I may... in fact, CanaSat project by Inpe shows that a great part of sugarcane farms are expanding since the 1990s from pasture areas, at least in Sao Paulo State... There are some studies by Embrapa that endorses that too... I believe that in other states things go by the same way, but I am not so sure. In Sao Paulo state, the area covered with forest is growing in the last decades. And there are studies showing that sugarcane is not a good plant for the Amazon region, so its expansion the Amazon forest is not so relevant for now...
@galenyoung48385 жыл бұрын
my son has been using Waste Veggie Oil to fuel his truck for over 10 years now.
@Knapweed5 жыл бұрын
Isaac Butterfield, is that you... ? :D
@Termiic4 жыл бұрын
Hi5. Mine's been recently running off of transformer oil.
@Humongous_Pig_Benis4 жыл бұрын
@zztop3000 You can eventually get it from free from local restaurants if you ask them. Or buy it new, bottled or in greater quantities from vegetable oil resellers - if it's significantly cheaper than diesel and it's already clean.
@MajorisMons4 жыл бұрын
@@Humongous_Pig_Benis Not even "eventually", you can literally get it from restaurants, heck some of them will even give it away for free seeing that your doing them a service by taking used oil off their hands for free. Proper oil disposal cost money. Free is, free.
@jacquesduplessis61754 жыл бұрын
Not all countires eat as much junk food as america, so it not really sustainable.
@ttuliorancao5 жыл бұрын
The premise of this video is totally flawed because: 1. It states that is hard to use ethanol as fuel for cars, which is false as Brazil does it since the 70's. 2. It considers refining ethanol to be very energy consuming but forgets that extracting and refining crude oil is very energy consuming too. If it's used the Brazilian technology, all parts of the sugarcane that can't be distilled or the byproduct of the distillation itself can be burned and generate more energy than the refining plant requires. It produces so much energy that it's around 10% of Brazilian energy production. 3. Ethanol production doesn't put strain on food supply if it's done right. Sugarcane in Brazil has 4 crops a year and, as the country is large as hell, it has enough land. And no, it's not produced in the Amazon. The plantations are around 1000 km away from it...
@gilsonrogeriolimaoliveira28074 жыл бұрын
If only our government taxed it differently from gas, it would be really advantageous, but our gas stations cartels makes sure that it will always cost 70% of the gasoline price, no matter the oil price, or if it's harvest season for the sugarcane
@mattdathew27944 жыл бұрын
thanks for such info, i thought they were doing it in the amazon
@imlivingunderyourbed78452 жыл бұрын
I think the problem with ethanol is not because it is energy consuming but because 1 liter of ethanol produces less energy than the energy required to produce that 1 liter, making it a net negative. This is according to Real Engineering's video about bio fuel.
@korishan5 жыл бұрын
Recycled vegetable oil (h-fuel as she called it) is "not" an expensive conversion process. There are "many" amateur setups where either the farm equipment (tractors and such) or their trucks, or both, run on the stuff and they save thousands of $$ a year on costs. Not just fuel costs, as the electricity used to help run the transesterification process. If you want to learn more info on it, just search for "Waste Vegetable Oil" or "WVO". it's only expensive to the ones who "really" don't want to do it and use other types of processes as they won't make as much of a profit off the WVO than they do from ethanol based fuels.
@drendelous5 жыл бұрын
Korishan give me some sources to read please. it makes sense but not enough proof
@AdamStrock5 жыл бұрын
I think the creators know that. The video is just agenda driven. They didn't mention how diesel engines can actually run on un-refined recycled vegetable oil, though the engine will run more efficiently if processed first. There have been car set-ups where people pour recycled unrefined vegetable oil through a filter (to remove any large contaminants) strait into their fuel tank.
@AdamStrock5 жыл бұрын
...of course the diesel engines need some modifications to do it.
@MarenHunsberger5 жыл бұрын
Hey Korishan, I’m sorry you feel that way! In the video we address issues that apply to producing biofuel efficiently on a MASS scale for entire countries, which is quite different than producing it on an individual scale. We also do recognize and mention several countries, like Brazil and Sweden, where biofuels are being used successfully, but the video is about the barriers to implementing it in countries where it’s not widely used.
@korishan5 жыл бұрын
@@drendelous As I said, just search for WVO and you get loads of sources, videos, articles, etc.
@truckingjourneys5 жыл бұрын
Technically speaking we have functional biofuel for diesel I'm a truck driver in almost every fuel station South of the Maryland line usually uses about 20% biodiesel
@spaceman64635 жыл бұрын
Kim Tae-Hyung Fan Your jobs gone in 2025 to 2030 Got a new job to go to
@benm59135 жыл бұрын
@@spaceman6463 If train conducting isn't close to being automated, truck driving is far from being close. Maybe his kids or grandkids shouldn't be truck drivers, he's fine though.
@spaceman64635 жыл бұрын
Ben M Ai isn’t trusted yet there has to be test your reason is stupid Self driving cars are gonna come on the next 10 years you think truck jobs are gonna be magically safe there just gonna be left even tho companies have pre payed for them
@benm59135 жыл бұрын
@@spaceman6463 That's not an argument. That's an insult and a reassertion of your claim. Trains have much fewer variables to program for and as such have a much higher likelihood of being automated than trucks. This is literally the same reason air drones were the first to be automated, there are fewer variables to program for in the sky.
@spaceman64635 жыл бұрын
Ben M So there aren’t good be self driving cars until 100 years into the future despite the fact we already have working modals this is your argument
@Enrygie5 жыл бұрын
Tears of my enemies is the only fuel I need
@acewmd.5 жыл бұрын
You've been running on empty forever then huh.
@abhiramrajeevan5 жыл бұрын
May be their success
@Barnaclehook5 жыл бұрын
That's strange, I've always used the blood and souls of my enemies.
@acewmd.5 жыл бұрын
@@Barnaclehook im guessing you've never put anything in it.
@Enrygie5 жыл бұрын
@@acewmd. people not with me must be against me. If your not my friend u must be an adversity . The tank Never goes to E
@bcborna65805 жыл бұрын
she said “ethanol production it’s at the expense of food production” - that rhetoric was pushed by big oil... the ethanol (when produced from corn) does not use the actual seeds, but the rest of the plant (so if anything makes the corn production cheaper / therefore helps lowering the cost of corn production) ... i find most of her clips informative thou (maybe i’m missing something)
@executiveorder71464 жыл бұрын
@Pit Crew Tuning PCT it can be made out of patato or methane gas so yes that bull crap is useful and the steak is not half bad either and i think some want us to leave useful stuff in the ground say oil and eat bugs and get mutations from pesticides
@thepope24124 жыл бұрын
They grow special corn for ethonal, and any acreage devoted to ethonal corn could go into normal corn. I know this because I live around these farms.
@executiveorder71464 жыл бұрын
@@thepope2412 first thats not true and for a few reasons and one is government regulation and the second is demand so just bc they can grow something else doesn't mean its profitable or useful
@aluisious3 жыл бұрын
Corn is shitty food anyway.
@westerngeckomaster25493 жыл бұрын
you can make bioethanol using corn, which is what she's talking about, but you can also make cellulosic ethanol using the corn stalks and waste products. it's a different process though, and more complicated. cellulosic ethanol is more promising, but bioethanol is more widely known, which might be why she focused on it.
@whyomgwhywtf5 жыл бұрын
Because oil companies keep burrying anything that isnt oil.
@frankfrankerson81275 жыл бұрын
Right. I've seen a car that runs on compressed air. A windmill turning an air compressor is free fuel. They said"what if the tank gets punctured? It would be a rocket ". Bc a tank of gas is safe lol
@lordgarion5145 жыл бұрын
That's not why. Biofuels are inherently inefficient to make. Which is why ethanol fuel didn't become a thing until the government subsidies were added. The fact is it takes more energy to make ethanol than the ethanol contains. It takes an idiot to think that it's a good idea to use a megawatt of energy to get half a megawatt of energy while at the same time making your food more expensive......
@douglas6855 жыл бұрын
@@lordgarion514 Wrong. Ethanol has no subsidies anymore (hasn't had them for years now) and the FACT is that ethanol production is energy positive. This was proven over a decade ago. Apparently oil companies didn't get the memo (or certainly they did and smeared the crap out of it, hence why everyone hates an awesome fuel such as ethanol so much).
@lordgarion5145 жыл бұрын
@@douglas685 Really? Nit what the federal government says. afdc.energy.gov/fuels/laws/ETH?state=US Also, from 1995-2017 corn farmers received 111 billion in subsidies. Now, 40% of corn goes to ethanol, and it very much gets the same subsidies as the rest of the corn. AND, the feds don't like calling "favorable" tax policies(and other money) subsidies, but the IEA which America helped set up, run, and fund does. Ethanol gets subsidies out the ass.
@probablynotdad65535 жыл бұрын
@@lordgarion514 No they aren't hard to make. The amount of work that goes into making gas and oil far out classes all biofuels combined. Surveying land" buying land with oil on it, drilling/mining for said oil, building entire towns for the employees who work near these oil fields, collecting the oil, transporting the oil, processing the oil, the oil and gas that are required to keep all the machines/vehicles running so they can do all these processes is already ridiculous as is. None of that is factored into how "efficient" oil and gas are, yet it's factored into biofuels for some odd reason.
@NotJustCreative5 жыл бұрын
Common, we got diesel cars, they can run on any oil, vegetable oil you name it, only thing you need is to heat it up before it goes to the engine.
@james64015 жыл бұрын
Is it true that Otto Diesel designed his engine to run on peanut oil?
@trippsmclovin5 жыл бұрын
@@james6401 easily possible, oil works man. Pretty much any kind with the right burning enzymes.
@anzaisekai34163 жыл бұрын
My father puts the used filtered oil in his diesel car 50 50 and it works perfectly! All those economical costs ecc. are bullshit, because the petrol has to be extracted and refined too, which is not exactly emission free. All they want to say is to produce electric cars, just cause they decided to.
@Vc1fxae5 жыл бұрын
Here in Taiwan (GMT+8), I am really glad that I can have my dinner with newly released Seeker tech videos almost everyday. Love you, Seekers!
@akhmadhumaidi15725 жыл бұрын
mee too
@sebastianelytron84505 жыл бұрын
Wow, and I thought my dinners were boring...
@hyphen26125 жыл бұрын
Lol I thought I'm the only Taiwanese doing that!
@timmykirls23525 жыл бұрын
@@sebastianelytron8450 STFU ur in the same video buddy
@mycelia_ow5 жыл бұрын
Your English is fantastic
@bulldog53055 жыл бұрын
HOLY MOLY INSTANTLY CLICKED BECAUSE I HAVE TO WRITE MY CHEMISTRY RESEARCH PAPER ON BIOFUELS THANKS SO MUCH.
@donutdude41745 жыл бұрын
Google hemp fuel, Bio-Diesel using hemp oil, fords hemp car and recent hemp powered generator
@anthonyzzz30135 жыл бұрын
Have a look at David MacKay's TED talk....1st few minutes v insightful on biofuel energy density
@superdupergrover98575 жыл бұрын
Yea, it's nice when that happens. Unfortunately for me, I have to write a paper on animal collective nouns. EVERYTHING about it is either a list or a blurb about the one good book on the subject. A book I already have.
@Omnifarious05 жыл бұрын
I would suggest figuring out how the caps lock key worked before writing your paper. You'll probably get better marks and/or better reception (i.e. people won't instantly dislike it) if you do.
@kubel835 жыл бұрын
Bulldog Good luck with your exam buddy☺️👍
@TheRambo0105 жыл бұрын
Me, in Brazil, watching this... "What is this woman talking about?!"
@estephanievelasquez96404 жыл бұрын
That happens a lot XD
@michaelaclarke32283 жыл бұрын
I'd like to know how hemp biofuel measures up to the others. I've heard you can grow three crops a year, it has oily seeds, and can also be used for practically everything else we need...
@ShEDDiNgmYSkiN2 жыл бұрын
It's the best of any of them. Sadly there's still too many restrictions on growing hemp in the United States. Henry Ford had that vision.
@shaedbuech73614 жыл бұрын
Rudolf Diesel designed his first engine to run on peanut oil
@gordonlawrence47495 жыл бұрын
Incorrect as far as making biodiesel is concerned. In the UK we are allowed to make 1500L/year last time I checked without paying duty. The result? Instead of about £1.30/L (about $6.40USD/gal) it's more like £0.20/L or about $1.00USD/gal. That's using a garage kit not industrial methods. You can make it cheaper if you know where to go as waste chip fat is something people will pay you to take away. I was counting on paying zero for used chip fat. A guy I know before things went a bit nuts here with diesel issues was looking at producing it commercially and people were willing to pay £50 per tonne for him to take it away.
@prestondenby685 жыл бұрын
You can't actually expect anyone to believe that distilling ethanol from corn is more expensive than drilling and processing petroleum. 😂😂😂😂
@kendelion5 жыл бұрын
it's been established already vs ongoing research and development. Once Drilled, it just spews out.
@augustovasconcellos71734 жыл бұрын
@@kendelion Nope, after a certain point, you need to start pumping water into the well so that the rest of the oil comes out, otherwise thousands of gallons of oil just sit underground as waste. And of course, that's assuming you can get your hands on these super convenient liquid deposits, which isn't always the case nowadays as most easily accessible oil deposits have already run out, leading to the more widespread usage of more expensive techniques such as fracking. And remember, this is all just for extracting the oil, you still need to distill it in order to refine it.
@kendelion4 жыл бұрын
@@augustovasconcellos7173 I see, hope we find a way to get energy from other sources cheaper, easier, and more environmentally friendly.
@JesusHChrist20004 жыл бұрын
@@augustovasconcellos7173 You also need to distill bioethanol. Plus when you distill crude oil you get a lot of other useful chemicals as byproducts.
@fitrianhidayat4 жыл бұрын
It's true though
@Kiyarose39995 жыл бұрын
So Crude Oil doesn’t need vast Oil Refineries to make the Crude into a Fuel for an engine? Come on, balance things up, so like for like!
@kamenwaticlients5 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same ting. The way they make it sound is as if both technologies are equally as mature. Really it like comparing a 5 yr old who just learned to read with a college professor as they both read Shakespeare out loud.
@n8rtotplayz6475 жыл бұрын
Actually, in the oil field, pump trucks sometimes run out of fuel. If the driver knows what they are doing, the can siphon off some sweet crude from the tanks and use it to get back to town. Diesel and sweet crude oil are very very close and only need a bit of refining and green or red dye.
@Kiyarose39995 жыл бұрын
Nathan Fields That’s with ‘Sweet Oil’ which is the highest quality of crude, but most of the best Oil has been used up. Nearly all Oil now is thick dirty Crude Oil, or tar sands oil, so most Oil now needs refineries, and even ‘Sweet Oil’ is refined and has addictives added to it before going to fuelling stations.
@n8rtotplayz6475 жыл бұрын
Kiyarose3999 that’s not entirely the case. If oil fields are left alone for long time they regenerate and often produce at the same rate and quality as the original. That’s why “peak oil” is such a scam. If it’s really fossil fuels explain why there are oceans of petroleum on one of Jupiter’s moons.
@Kiyarose39995 жыл бұрын
Nathan Fields I can only think that gas probably builds up in disused wells, pushing the last remains to the top, making it seem like it was when first drilled, with the same pressures. But is likely to be a flash in the pan( like Fracked Wells), I’m not saying there’s a shortage of Oil of all types. New Oil is being discovered all the time, even off the UK coast. But it’s not to do with how much oil there is. But we NEED to leave the rest in the ground, and use Carbon Sequestering Algea Bio Fuel instead, so using the world’s vehicles as Carbon Sequestering machines.
@Jecksnkovski5 жыл бұрын
3:09 sounds exactly like my parent's chickens when they see you coming with food
@angelic86320025 жыл бұрын
The saying "right tool for the job" comes to mind. There's not going to be a silver bullet here, at least for the foreseeable future. Don't try to simplify things and don't buy into hype(something this channel should learn btw), it takes time, money and clever minds to solve problems. So if you really want to see change, don't whine over taxes, promote free education and stop whining "that everything is so difficult". That wont lead to anything. *Life* is difficult. Grow up and look at the larger picture.
@liquidluck7115 жыл бұрын
Or or or the silver bullets have been shot and taken away from the crime scene so there's very little forensic evidence. With oil companies having a stranglehold on the energy industry makes things too easy for them to stay in power. They lobby, get laws made to protect their actions. They buy patents before they are publicly released and then sit on them for years and years until people forget there were cars invented which run off water and air. You see any good killer knows bullets leave casings. That's why truly evil people will remove all evidence of the violence against humanity so long as humanity continues to still put their faith in the crooked killers, the crooked prosecutors who say no shells no crime or to the crooked judge who was either paid off or is blackmailed to make the wrong decisions. You see, this problem goes way deeper than some silver bullets. When the whole system is corrupt and being controlled, this raises the question - who really even cares who shot those bullets in the first place? Maybe the ones in control will play it off as a hate crime or random heart attack or mysterious disappearance. If you need me to back up any of my claims with credible evidence showing everything I said as true, I will....
@ShEDDiNgmYSkiN2 жыл бұрын
Back in the 1930s Henry Ford created a vehicle made of hemp composite and ran on hemp biofuel. It's time to start growing fields of it and lift the restrictions. The reason is because of corporate interference and greed as always.
@GenieChef5 жыл бұрын
In the EU (or at least in Germany) a certain percentage of biofuel in regular fuel is mandatory.
@Samcharleston245 жыл бұрын
Well yeah it’s the same in the U.S about 15 % now but the video doesn’t mention that
@joaov.m.oliveira99035 жыл бұрын
It's becoming mandatory everywhere, but I don't know how much of this policy derives from a true preocupation with the environment and how much of it comes from a preocupation to please the the ethanol industry. In Brazil, the gasoline is mixed with 25-27% ethanol and I can't but to suspect a large part of this is due to lobby.
@FrankCastle-he8fl4 жыл бұрын
In California even the regular gas is like 10 or 15% ethanol
@davidgbf4 жыл бұрын
Brazil: hold my beer. 🧐
@viniciussantos143 жыл бұрын
Brazil: hold my cachaça.
@johnmcdonald13065 жыл бұрын
Since the hemp plant can produce up to three times more oil than the ones mentioned which might be why it was illegal for so long as is the best alternative. Stalks and fibers used to clothing and rope. What was not mentioned is to cost of drilling vs growing and environmental impacts of petroleum oil spills. I believe people are now using CBT oils as natural pain remedies.
@FrankCastle-he8fl4 жыл бұрын
I run Flex fuel and will do biodiesel in the future
@boogerking74115 жыл бұрын
Here in russia, ethanol fuels your stomach!
@davidhobbs56795 жыл бұрын
No talk of turning biomass into conventional fuels by hydrothermal liquefaction, you know the most viable method to date?.....No okay well
@saradanhoff65395 жыл бұрын
That would be disruptive to the narrative. It's been a viable solution for a decade and a half, but it doesn't make rich people even filthier rich so until the mob finally drags them out in the streets and beats them to death, don't expect anyone to do anything but pretend "we're not quite there" for another few decades still. Even though we've been "there" for well over a decade now.
@Belicose7775 жыл бұрын
Every time I see or hear the word biomass I think of zero horizon: dawn. Rip Dolphins
@isaaclao23805 жыл бұрын
Na, I have the real reason: Biofuel is currently used but on AIRCRAFT. So since aircraft needs more fuel than cars, so most of the Biofuel goes to the Aviation industry. Because KLM already uses biofuel for a regularly flights using Airbus A320 families since 2011.
@allanrichardson14685 жыл бұрын
That wasn’t a misstatement when she said we’ve been working on biofuels since the early 1900s. Rudolf Diesel designed his engine to run on peanut oil, but kerosene (an oil derivative then used for stoves and lanterns) was cheaper.
@Hamsterbytes5 жыл бұрын
Ford auto company initially used alcohol fuel, but the oil companies convinced him to go gasoline with lots of money.
@Zeraybifive5 жыл бұрын
Because the government prefers to establish laws that bans memes instead.
@pandaman39505 жыл бұрын
If ethanol is a fail, then why are ethanol blends wide spread, cheaper, cleaner and more powerful. Don't know what part if US seeker is living in.
@garnetcampbell43895 жыл бұрын
Ethanol blends are not more powerful that pure gasoline. Ethanol and fuels like E85. 1.5 gallons of ethanol has the same energy content as 1.0 gallon of gasoline. A flex-fuel vehicle will experience about 76% of the fuel mileage MPG when using E85 (85% ethanol) products as compared to 100% gasoline. ... Pure ethanol provides 2/3 of the heat value available in pure gasoline. It is so wide spread is because it was mandated by the government to help farmers and be less reliant on the middle east. But when you allocate finite farm land from growing food crops to crops used to make bio fuels makes no sense to me.
@garnetcampbell43895 жыл бұрын
Ben Ghazi That is true with boosted engines but why would I fill up with 10% blend and go 600km before fill up when I can get 1000km on pure gasoline for the same price at the pump?
@garnetcampbell43895 жыл бұрын
@Ben Ghazi E10 is the same price at the pumps. I drive a 2003 Ford Super Duty extended cab, 8 foot box 4x4 with the 5.4 gas engine. Needless to say the engine is just enough for the truck. Saying that the truck gets average 17 MPG highway so I am not complaining at all. But since the engine has 9.0:1 compression and is naturally aspirated there is not enough energy in E10 for the engine to make enough power to move the heavy truck so I have to put in more throttle. That is why the range is so poor with E10.
@douglas6855 жыл бұрын
@@garnetcampbell4389 Certainly true, however not all e85 vehicles are like this. GM used to make a flex fuel ecotech turbo 4 cyl Buick which only had a 10% mpg loss on e85 vs 87 gas. It pushed boost and timing up to some very impressive levels to effectively utilize every single drop of e85 to the max. It was available for a couple years before GM killed it. Every single e85 vehicle since with the exception of 1 new Mercedes has been non turbo with 13:1 or less compression, effectively making MPG loss look terrible. I honestly wonder sometime if there really is a conspiracy going on. Why not make turbos run e85 to take advantage of the octane and offset the loss? Also, even with the loss added in, here in the "heartland" e85 is dirt cheap, and it's low cost makes up most of the difference in my area, net is about the cost of filling up with 89.
@leerman225 жыл бұрын
The US subsidizes it though corn and sugar subsidies. It's a corporate welfare scam.
@phuckhugh26985 жыл бұрын
what about hemp for biofuel?
@AdamKnightMadude4 жыл бұрын
Got a bone to pick with this. A lot of the video was spent talking about biofuel for GASOLINE powered cars, creating Ethanol from "bio" sources. Ask any moonshiner if extracting pure ethanol from plant material is difficult, or energy intensive. The short answer is yes. On the other hand, biofuel production for DIESEL engines, is absolutely there, it's 100% feasible, cheap and reliable done correctly, transesteracation is a relatively simple process and yields plenty of usable biofuel for diesel engines at a carbon neutral output. Which takes me to the Crux of my point. Moving away from petroleum based fuels is absolutely possible, if there weren't so many stakeholders in place, that would loose out financially as a result, alliances between nation's have been founded on the basis of oil trade, massive multinational companies rely on petroleum based fuels, which was not addressed.
@canaan53375 жыл бұрын
Because oil companies are already making billions of dollars a year off of petroleum and they don't plan on stopping anytime soon if they figured out how to make biofuel tomorrow some big petroleum company with Baba formula and make sure none of it ever gets produced until they've sold off the last drop of petroleum-derived fuel.
@bryanchai55365 жыл бұрын
Canaan that is very true
@Jake122205 жыл бұрын
Quite possibly, but even if they found an effective way to make biofuels for cars and trucks, oil is used to make so many different products that we would still be using lots of it for the foreseeable future.
@flyingrc20415 жыл бұрын
ur an idiot!
@tanmayshekhar48745 жыл бұрын
your background kind of strains the eye first i thought it was the glare but then i checked again it your red blue green background
@AkinaJVS5 жыл бұрын
yeah that fucked me up too, to the point i didnt watch the video, just listened to it
@bonnevillessei675 жыл бұрын
One of the few times Seeker really missed the mark. 1. "Ethanol engines are hard to make." Indycar has been running methanol and ethanol since the 70's. Nascar has run ethanol since 2011. 2. "Algae is hard to make." Ever heard of algae blooms that have been choking the life out of Lake Erie since the 50's and 60's?
@dalethornton27463 жыл бұрын
Hydrogen and electric is the future. The charge on the batteries needs to be done by solar in order to make the batteries worthwhile. Otherwise, electric is very borderline on the pay off. Very sketchy unless we use solar
@elephantwalkersmith15334 жыл бұрын
I worked for a vm backed biofuels firm a few years ago. We made jet fuel, butadiene (synthetic rubber from biofuels), n-butanol (a high octane biofuel) and other biofuels from cellulosic materials like bagasse, wood chips, and corner stover. In the end , the VC pulled its funding because they did not want to build a plant. We had proven low cost production of clean biofuels and bio-chemicals, but the money would not take the risk. This is why we don’t have widespread biofuels. There is no appetite for risk and competing with oil companies.
@Mars309995 жыл бұрын
I am waiting for the day everything runs on electricity powered buy a fusion reactor
@logancatron22395 жыл бұрын
Cant wait for ITER to go online. Others are already working on bigger tokamaks too
@ohtheblah5 жыл бұрын
don't worry, it's only 20 years away from (insert any date)
@Kiyarose39995 жыл бұрын
I’m not supporting the use of Corn etc Ethanol as an alternative fuel, BUT to say it doesn’t have the energy density of Petroleum fuel, is ignoring the fact that Ethanol is what Drag racers use, so it is obviously a enough powerful fuel, and may compare or be better than fossil fuel.
@creamofbotulismsoup99005 жыл бұрын
The reason ethanol or other alcohol based fuels are used is because they resist premature detonation otherwise known as knock, which allows have more power without blowing up your engine. It is less energy dense, so they have to use more of it to make the same amount of power.
@trulyinfamous5 жыл бұрын
Algae biofuel seems like the most practical option for the decades it will take for electric vehicles to take over. I want to be able to run my vintage muscle car on a carbon neutral fuel in an era where most other vehicles on the road are electric. It's going to take a while for electric vehicle technology to get to the same level as oil, because since oil has 130+ years of technological advancements, it's going to take a while for other technologies to reach that level. If we focused on steam instead of combustion for engines, for example, modern steam cars might be as quick to start and fast as gasoline engines.
@davidbracht36824 жыл бұрын
Speaker says we've been TRYING to make biofuels since early 1900s. Actually, biofuels pre-dates petroleum fuels. Henry Ford's model T was designed to run on alcohol (which humans have been producing for more than a millenia). Speaker implied many things that were simply wrong. Biofuels already works (go to Brazil to see how). What doesn't work is the stranglehold the petroleum industry has on our regulations, which essentially mandate at least 85% petroleum product except for a small set of vehicles. We should let economics and science decide, not oil executives.
@zukodude4879875 жыл бұрын
I feel like biofuel is never going to get off the ground, because it will inevitably due to conversion costs always being too high, the reason fossil fuels work is because they accumelated over millions of years from pre-existing dead plant matter, it's the laws of thermo dynamics at play.
@cutback4435 жыл бұрын
The ONLY reason we don't "use" biofuels is because of big oil. The tech is here
@bobsinhav5 жыл бұрын
I though about this. Limited applications for biofuels: - Farm machinery - Overground mining vehicles - Military vehicles - Ferries and river barges - Commercial and business jets Limited sources: - Forestry, food, and meat wastes - Unused parts of food/cash crops - Bioenergy crops on marginal lands - Algae ponds
@MrGustavoselem5 жыл бұрын
Brazil has had some success? I fill my car with ethanol pretty much every time
@ikeblack36475 жыл бұрын
don't let internet see this. they gonna get butthurt and call you a moron.
@danafletcher23415 жыл бұрын
Brazil put an import tariff on our corn ethanol in 2017. We are too successful.
@sukhpreetriyat85054 жыл бұрын
My car runs on the blood of my enemies
@lacikaketezeregy78244 жыл бұрын
I think many oil companies are working on advanced biofuels (so not ethanol) for some time now, but it takes time to bring these new technologies to the market (and investors). For example, Shell Oil makes fuel from wood, which is quite interesting. I have read about this on www.shell.com/ih2.
@dhawthorne16345 жыл бұрын
There are already vehicles modified to run on wood gas. I am also aware of a tree that grows to full maturity in about 5 years and can reliably regrow from a stump. I can't remember the name, unfortunately, that would take some searching. Wood gas is a waste product of making charcoal. A production plant could burn charcoal to cook wood and produce more charcoal, capturing the gas as a fluid fuel and saving the tar for use in road resurfacing, roofing or simply as another fuel source. Rather than a fuel tank with liquid, cars would have pressurized cylinders of wood gas and a regulator rather than a fuel pump.
@kopai5555 жыл бұрын
In our country got ethanol that fermented from sugarcane available at every gas station. We got mix ratio rate as E10, E20 and E85 E10 = 10% ethanol + 90% fuel E20 = 20% ethanol + 80% fuel E85 = 85% ethanol + 15% fuel (This is cheapest one) Most new car here can handle E85 so they pay less for fueling but for older car need some modify to be working well. (PS. When sugar price is dropping sugarcane farmer will likely to sell those sugarcane for production of ethanol)
@justanotherrandomfilipino90185 жыл бұрын
Do charcoal briquettes made of human poop count as a source of biofuel?
@marrymekatsuya5 жыл бұрын
yee
@pedroff_15 жыл бұрын
This reminds me that some tribes in the Amazon forest used to bury poop with charcoal, and that explains some extra-fertile patches of "black soil" on a forest whose soil tends to be quite poor
@rahulprasadverma5 жыл бұрын
long story short... petroleum mafia companies won't let you. that's it
@johncoffman18414 жыл бұрын
The vid is obviously pro--oil industry. Sounds like a tobacco commercial to me. Kinda like, "We've tried non-tobacco products. But they're expensive and don't give the same kick."
@rkim27755 жыл бұрын
in indonesia , we are using biofuel from palm oil , it's cheap , and we try to use 100% palm oil as our main fuel
@GilchrestJohn5 жыл бұрын
Isn't palm oil use destroying the rainforests and natural habitats?...........There's rising concern around the world regarding palm oil use, especially what comes from Indonesia.
@Renthar5 жыл бұрын
the brown car at 2:01 is giving da finger XD
@Extraterrestrial-With-A-Finger5 жыл бұрын
I love this host she's so relatable!! Thank you seeker always looking forward to the additional knowledge on a daily basis...
@houchi695 жыл бұрын
We probably should look into another reason: money. Gasoline companies will lobby the crap out of all alternative energies. That's really the reason.
@Kiyan31004 жыл бұрын
how come none of these big youtube channels are talking about hemp oil? out of all the biofuels out there, hemp fuel has the most potential to be something huge but all the videos about them only get like 10,000 views, and btw, henry ford's car actually ran on hemp fuel before the ban in 1937.
@scenicdepictionsofchicagolife5 жыл бұрын
The issue is we will never just "grow" a useable liquid fuel. The conservation of energy is a constant so there will always be additional energy input into creating biofuels. Good news is, that just like with crude oil (yes, it needed an external energy source AKA the suns light and billions of years) we can ALSO use the sun to convert biomass into higher energy density fuel. It would be a very smart case for the use of dollar energy as a means to produce liquid fuels (since solar has a tendency to be an unstable energy source) as opposed to using it to power the residential grid. THEN you will have true carbon neutral biofuel production AND if you scrub atmospheric CO2 and Hydrogen (through electrolysis) and react them together to make SynGas you can make ANY variety of hydrocarbons and thousands of isomers of them to best suit your needs. This is IMO a much better way since it doesn't cut into the global food supply and put more stress on an already unsustainable and overworked agricultural production system. Cars that use these fuels would essentially be cleaner than electric vehicles that charge up with electricity produced from natural gas or coal (though electric vehicles that charge off of solar and other renewables are still obviously an order of magnitude cleaner than any ICE powered vehicle)
@picodrift5 жыл бұрын
Bacteria can shorten the time needed to convert biofuel using crops.
@Bassotronics5 жыл бұрын
Nuck Time to make some doodoo!
@GuitarSamurai175 жыл бұрын
I dont know what it is, but something about your videos makes me uneasy...
@VonLanzeloth5 жыл бұрын
It’s the background
@benjamin71145 жыл бұрын
Too much light and color .
@rtkiff5 жыл бұрын
While we are looking for more effective solutions, biofuel does function. A portion of it is in gasoline from the gas station. You should rename the video because biofuel "functions" it's just not as effective as we want it to be yet. Also another problem is cars since most don't run off pure ethanol.
@danafletcher23415 жыл бұрын
They certainly could run off pure ethanol: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hGfOgX2Ol7WVapI
@manvendrasingh44095 жыл бұрын
Ethanol is already produced at a large scale for human consumption. Why is the presenter saying it is difficult to be produced? Moreover, if ethanol replaces the fossil fuels like diesel and petrol it will surely bankrupt gulf countries. Oil industry cannot afford to make biofuel liable for use as they will run out of business.
@chasemc695 жыл бұрын
go buy the cheapest ethanol you can find at the liquor store and see how expensive it becomes. yes it's cheap to produce on the scale humans can drink it but it's a lot more expensive to produce the amount your car needs to run daily.
@manvendrasingh44095 жыл бұрын
Ok distillation might be expensive but can you tell what is the difference between the cost incurred per liter in distillation of ethanol and refining of petroleum. People go after brand name and buy expensive alcohols. I don't know what is the price in USA but in my country imported alcoholic beverages are very expensive but locally produced are very cheap. Moreover ethanol can be produced from waste crops and eatables. Much research hasn't been done in this area, that is the only problem or perhaps oil industrialists don't want the research to be done. This reminds me of similar case like many researchers across the globe claimed to have discovered cure for cancer but surprisingly their medicine never reached the market or pharmaceutical industries didn't wanted to. @@chasemc69
@seriousgoat765 жыл бұрын
I think we are forgetting the main reason, governments keep subsidising fossil fuels.
@MarenHunsberger5 жыл бұрын
Its MAGIC I certainly won’t disagree with you there-but Seeker is a science channel, so we address the science of the issue. If we went into the politics of the issues we cover on the channel, every video would be 20+ minutes long!
@galacticnova855 жыл бұрын
Just like how ethanol fuel is also heavily if not entirely subsidized by the government
@danafletcher23415 жыл бұрын
@@galacticnova85 I have absolutely wonderful news for you! The Federal subsidy on corn ethanol also known as VEETC ended back in 2011!(along with import tariffs) afdc.energy.gov/laws/laws_expired?jurisdiction=US The G7 Nations' long standing stated goal of ending petroleum subsidies?......not so much.
@LinkinParkForever105 жыл бұрын
If you only you could process all the salt from the youtube comment section and turn it into a biofuel.
@simontrueman5 жыл бұрын
They are working on sodium batteries. I think that the only way to extract the salt from the comments would be to process the commenters in a rendering plant. Doing that is probably a bit energy intensive to be practical. ;-)
@henrykzajac80015 жыл бұрын
Well even tho producing biofuel requires a lot of energy, then if energy source is clean, then I find it worth. Biofuel may be just a long term energy storage, or used as you said for planes, since they contribute to co2 emissions largely. Also many times we have overproduction of energy in certain time and conditions, we can use it.
@kd9d3p745 жыл бұрын
Huge petroleum companies like Shell, BP, Chevron Texaco fears that this idea will kill their business.
@paulmichaelfreedman83345 жыл бұрын
They know the end is near for fossil fuels. The oil companies are some of the biggest investors into biofuels.
@aaryapatil2035 жыл бұрын
I love ur glasses maren!
@Galaxyofbrian5 жыл бұрын
Oh love please less mumbo jumbo we've got what we've got because of greed, not because nobody figured out something better already, they did that years ago.
@sanres4 жыл бұрын
The Soviet engineer did try to use ethanol as rocket fuel. They abandoned it because those space program employees kept drinking it while refueling the rocket.
@Spartacusse5 жыл бұрын
I'm from Brazil and most cars are "Total-Flex", meaning you can fill up with Ethanol AND Gas in any proportion you want.
@ramsundar32325 жыл бұрын
Just chill, we got tidal, wind, solar, hydro, future fusion power with electric motor and improving battery technology....Carbon neutral....we r getting tr!
@SWRaptor15 жыл бұрын
Here's an idea... Stop! Using! Fuels! Use electric only. Easy peasy.
@SWRaptor15 жыл бұрын
@Mad Adam solar, wind, geo-thermal, and hydroelectric. With battery technology finally reaching the grid scale, we have no need for fossil fuels anymore. Well other than to make the rich people who own those companies more money as we destroy the planet further by being lazy and not leaving the antiquated 20th Century tech behind.
@SWRaptor15 жыл бұрын
@Mad Adam oh and Co2 is a greenhouse gas. In and of itself, it's not necessarily a pollutant. It's a gas, but its being too abundant in the atmosphere coupled with water vapor, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons it can cause the climate to be drastically affected by trapping heat. Changing it in devastating ways in a very short time. Which results in catastrophic human accelerated climate change. That will change the face of the planet we know now in some pretty awful ways. The longer we wait to address it, the worse off we leave the planet for our kids and grandkids.
@ohtheblah5 жыл бұрын
@Mad Adam actually most of it is being fed by coal and natural gas, not nuclear power. if most of it did come from nuclear, the world would be in much better shape and people would be a lot healthier.
@SWRaptor15 жыл бұрын
@@ohtheblah we no longer need fission. It's too dirty in current reactors and to move to cleaner types would take at the very least a decade in regulatory and safety approvals. Let alone building them. Since we have the solar, wind, and other renewables finally at a mature and viable technology level. Coupled to matured battery and energy storage technology methods. We don't need fission anymore. Fusion on the other hand we could use for sure once it becomes viable, but fission is yet another antiquated technology we should just leave in the 20th Century with fossil fuels. Edit for a typo
@SWRaptor15 жыл бұрын
@Mad Adam umm your first claim is completely without merit or facts. CO2 levels have direct effects on the earth's temperature. Denying that simple science based fact is denying reality for a narrative. Facts don't care about your narratives. Facts are facts. I didn't state CO2 is a pollutant. I guess you have issues reading what I wrote. Let me put it this way for you; CO2 isn't the only greenhouse gas humanity generates. It's a really bad one, but it's not the worst. It just gets the worst rap. We do generate it and in vast, unimaginable quantities that have directly impacted the climate of our planet. Period. I'm really not here to give you a lesson in plant biology, but sure CO2 is good for the current varieties of plant life. In moderation. Heat also affects plants and specifically their stomata. Which take in CO2 and also put out oxygen and even perspiration like sweating. They don't do it all at once. It's either taking in CO2, releasing oxygen or water vapor perspiring. That's why high heat hurts plants. Because they can't take in other gas when they are releasing H2O in the perspiration phase. Toss on top that plants can only use so much CO2 before it plateaus. It can only use so much CO2 before it doesn't matter. Again CO2 isn't the only GHG. There are a lot more GHGs we should also address to reduce the effects of climate change. CO2 is just the one that gets the most attention, but there are a few that should also get a lot of attention. LoL geo-engineering and the HAARP comment show you're not caring about reality. Only a faulty narrative based in pure speculation and a lack of facts. Rather than reality and evidence. You talk about hope for reaching others and I think that's just projection for the fact you either consciously or subconsciously know you're talking about yourself. I wouldn't be calling other people stupid for understanding science, evidence, and facts. You should be putting down the social media and KZbin. Then picking up some STEM classes at your local community college. You really need them. Lastly, ROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFL COLD FUSION ROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFL YOU THINK THERE'S COLD FUSION!!!!! ROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFL Edit for a typo in the first paragraph. Cold fusion though... ROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFL
@davianjanvierto46795 жыл бұрын
I like seaweed and kelp to be a bio fuel for vehicles. But, we musn't abuse it !
@Belicose7775 жыл бұрын
Even cars that don't come with flex fuel capabilities from the factory don't require much modification. The only things that need to be changed are the fuel lines (as ethanol corrodes), bigger fuel injectors, a sensor that detects ethanol content , higher flowing fuel pump and an appropriate tune as ethanol based fuels are knock resistant due to the lack of potential chemical energy(relative to fossil fuels) by volume so you essentially need to tell your car to pump more fuel to achieve the same energy output. Many car enthusiasts and race car applications use E85 conversions. It allows for the production of more power, safely. Fossil fuels, particularly the lower octane ones, are likely to pre-detonate. Also smells like sweet popcorn. It's cool :)
@noel1987o75 жыл бұрын
We should put our research in Electric Cars & Magnetic Levitation
@florin6045 жыл бұрын
What is more to research about MAGLEV?
@anthonyzzz30135 жыл бұрын
@douglas carpenter That may be too late
@florin6045 жыл бұрын
@douglas carpenter there is nothing cheaper than free oil. You don't have to produce oil... It's already in the ground. It's cheaper than water. Too bad it won't last forever...
@gordonlawrence47495 жыл бұрын
@Santa ! He does not realise the irony of his own idiocy. IE saying we believe anything and expecting us to believe his nonsense with no evidence.
@JaysJunk75 жыл бұрын
For someone so smart, I would expect someone with a much better fashion sense. I'm not taking anyone serious with that sweater on.
@Curas15 жыл бұрын
The solution is thermal depolymerization. This process can make anything hydrocarbon into oil and be used for reclamating everything from our waste streams, crop overproduction to any plastics, rubbers and most waste. This is a net positive energy producer and a refinement using variable microwaves makes the prosess even more efficient.
@AnimalAce4 жыл бұрын
2:00 Did the tan van just flip me off?
@fundemort5 жыл бұрын
I VOTE FOR NUCLEARFUEL. WHO'S WITH ME?
@Barskor15 жыл бұрын
Thorium!
@Matuttaja5 жыл бұрын
Here in Finland we have Neste My diesel which is made 100% from renewable sources such as trash and from plan grease. You can buy it from the closest Neste petrol station and it costs 0.20€/liter more than normal diesel. They promise 90% smaller CO2 emissions and that it works on all diesel engines .
@manickn68195 жыл бұрын
Imagine spending billions and not doing a basic cost benefit analysis.
@zaneal-amood54743 жыл бұрын
also another recent discovery regarding biofuel is that in order to increase the energy production of the fuel you need more protons the molecule needs more protons The more protons you have the more energy to chemical reaction you’re going to get which of course obviously
@ttmallard5 жыл бұрын
While in Phoenix, AZ, my work on bioreactor units to use algae to purify wastewater at the treatment plant was being proposed by the Democratic governor & EPA dept head as an incremental pilot for the city's 10M-gal/day plant able to produce 3M-gal/day in biodiesel, got shot down by Sen. McCain & the GOP this years ago. [edit, I just looked it up and Jan Brewer was GOP! So it was inter-party politics involved, she was always very cordial to me.] That's why, still waiting, any plant globally can do this and it fully recycles to the potable supply just like North Lake Tahoe's full recycle plant has been doing using only filtration since the late 70's, or, you get ALGAE blooms, they are why we have treatment plants, get it? Can't get a small biz loan since, that's also why, so, as the epitaph of the homeless goes, 'Good Luck! ' ...
@ttmallard5 жыл бұрын
Adding, to flip off of fossil electric this is an all-magnet motor powering a megawatt of 100%-Continuous Duty-cycle electricity for 50-YEARS, built to run without sparking: www.technokontrol.com/en/current-projects/generator.php This scale and footprint can flip substations off the grid ... ymmv.
@mukundbhanot71445 жыл бұрын
The REAL problem here is getting overlooked. Does everyone need a car? People living in big cities especially do not require a motor vehicle. Cars are hilariously inefficient at transporting people. Get rid of your car and your fuel problem gets solved instantly.
@christopherwhite8295 жыл бұрын
In college I did a report on algae fuel 15000 square miles is all it would take for the United States to be independent and not need oil anymore
@101sinfo5 жыл бұрын
Hi Maren, I'm practicing english language for TOEFL, and I've found your videos. Talk girl talk, don't stop, i'm listening. Thank you
@theblackhole055 жыл бұрын
But you know English
@101sinfo5 жыл бұрын
@@theblackhole05 Yeah, I know but I'm not fluent. I'm improving my skills. As you might understand, I am not native. but thanks for your reply
@surfie0075 жыл бұрын
In Australia they have E10 fuel which is made of 10% bio-ethanol and is equivalent to octane 95 and any car that can run unleaded fuel can use it. It is also always 2 cents / litre cheaper than the other fuels
@Bob-3215 жыл бұрын
Soviets stopped using ethanol while Brazil started using ethanol from sugar cane fuel for many years, across most of their vehicles. US uses ethanol in your everyday gasoline.
@arnetvlogs72485 жыл бұрын
it's 4:16 AM and I'm not complaining that this is how I'm spending my night
@working2bselfsufficient7245 жыл бұрын
Get sleep you wrote it's 416am and your talking about nightime. 😂
@microproductions65 жыл бұрын
We've had "functional" biofuel for a while, but just not on a scale large enough to replace fossil fuels. (But like they mentioned in the video, even if we did, internal combustion engines would need to be completely redesigned.) What they didn't mention is that in most of the U.S. ethanol accounts for 10% of the fuel you pump into your car at gas stations, and that diesel fuel is also blended with some biodiesel as well. Current internal combustion engines can handle and actually benefit from a small amount of ethanol. Home heating oil, which is used to heat many homes in the northeastern U.S., is also blended with biodiesel. There is also a completely different type of biofuel made from plants which is essentially crude oil. This is then treated as normal crude and refined into products. The idea is that it is carbon neutral because the plants used to make it absorb the same amount of CO2 that the fuel they are turned into burns. Which of course is only true if the energy used to refine it is clean as well.
@wpelfeta5 жыл бұрын
Biofuel actually is used by gas stations in the US. According to BP's website: By federal and state regulation, nearly all gasoline sold by retailers in the US has up to 10% ethanol blended into it to comply with the US Renewable Fuel Standards as part of the Energy Independence and Security Act.
@christopherwhite8295 жыл бұрын
Now I know 15,000 square mile sounds like a lot but in actuality there's at least 10 or more states that could literally hawk up that mountain square footage easily
@henrythegreatamerican81365 жыл бұрын
Guess I'm the only one who recharges my batteries using the smelly goop in the cat litter box.
@Barskor15 жыл бұрын
Bioreactor or some other chemistry?
@riskojames5 жыл бұрын
i can see that the lighting crew is doing the host a lot of favors here
@rest_in_prince_I_h_trains4 жыл бұрын
"Why can't you fill it up in the gas stations yet?". In Stockholm, the buses run on bio fuel synthesized from wasre sewage. At some petrol stations, there's bio fuel available to fill up cars.
@hellcat19885 жыл бұрын
The biggest problem is longevity of older vehicles. If they suddenly required everyone to go out and buy new cars that can use a new bio-fuel, the problem would likely be solved. Since they CAN'T do that, and my 1992 Jeep Cherokee wants the dino stuff, finding that perfect new fuel is like searching for a single neutrino in the sun.
@ab_ab_c4 жыл бұрын
I think you are misrepresenting the cost to produce algae biodiesel. Algae strains can produce 10,000 gallons of biodiesel per acre. The process to refine it is pressing, filtering, & esterifaction (which is essentially treating it with methanol & either NAOH or KOH & heat) and that's it--you have biodiesel after you drain off the glycerol--which can then be run in diesel engines (which we need more of in the USA). For comparison, the average car that gets 22 mph fuel efficiency & drives 11,500 miles per year would only burn 523 gallons of fuel for driven miles (+ a bit more for idling). That means 1 acre of biodiesel could supply enough fuel for ~20 vehicles for a whole year! We certainly have enough area to grow sufficient algae to produce sufficient algae biodiesel in the US.
@skankhunt-zw6gg4 жыл бұрын
I have always been amazed by Diesel engines. It’s such good machine to work on such a low grade fuel! Wish it would surge the market soon for biofuel.