Is Corn Ethane Net Energy Positive?

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Ethanol also has a lower heat content per gallon, correct? Well, it does. And so you need, yeah, you basically, you don't get the same range. You fill up your tank with 15% ethanol and your car doesn't go as far as if you've filled it up with 100%. Or the flex fuel vehicles that have up to 70% or whatever it is, they even have a lesser range. Yeah. The course is that you're competing, you're using food for fuel. And so that has the effect of you use less of what you grow to feed people. It also increases the cost of agricultural land,. I mean, we get into this whole

On this episode, petroleum geologist Arthur Berman returns to unpack the development and drawbacks of ‘peak oil’. Art explains how our institutions have redefined what is considered oil, which has created an illusion of constantly growing oil production. The reality is that - circa 2023 - fully 40% of what is called oil is comprised of things that are ‘not oil’. What does this imply for global peak oil? Is peak oil, an observation which has been around for decades and repeatedly proven ‘wrong’, even relevant today? Is a specific ‘peak’ date even helpful or should we be focusing on the logical implications of a declining primary resource for global economies? And then, what should we do

About Art Berman:

Arthur E. Berman is a petroleum geologist with 36 years of oil and gas industry experience. He is an expert on U.S. shale plays and is currently consulting for several E&P companies and capital groups in the energy sector.

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