First Name | Steve |
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Last Name | Vander Griend |
Email Address | svandergriend@icminc.com |
Affiliation | ICM Inc. |
Subject | Ethanol's potential for reducing carbon |
Comment | Setting emission standards and policies is an ever more confusing issue. In setting carbon intensity for the production of ethanol, the large picture is over looked while indirect land use is debated. While crop acre reports and yield production numbers don’t line up with the critic’s arguments against ethanol, the potential for ethanol is not being discussed. Several market ready approaches for higher efficiency with ethanol could move into the market very quickly, AVL’s / Ford’s Bobcat engine or Ricardo’s EBDI engine are two great engine platforms that are developed and certified. This offers an additional 20 to 30 percent reduction to carbon over the numbers being discussed today. Along with this, ethanol has the potential to displace 25 percent more oil by approaching the next generation of FFV’s from the perspective of efficiency and mileage capabilities. By listing the emission of carbon per horsepower hour, this is the most straight forward approach to evaluating cars, trucks or any other engine application. Carbon per horsepower hour would see significant reduction when ethanol is used. Ethanol can achieve much higher efficiency then gasoline and has demonstrated higher efficiencies of even the most advanced diesels with significant reductions of not only carbon but other harmful emissions. Saab introduce their FFV with much of the same technology as the two previously listed engines some two years ago, while for some reason this is still not marketed in the US , it offered near equal mileage with E85 in the tank as compared with today’s regular gasoline. With 30 percent less carbon in the tank, this simply means less carbon out the tail pipe. What many need to realize at the California ARB is that in order for cellulose ethanol to be successful, we need to raise the value for ethanol. If corn ethanol is not successful, if the big picture for corn ethanol is not recognized and the critics are allow misrepresenting the facts, then not much progress is going to be made. Steve Vander Griend |
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted | 2009-08-25 07:10:10 |
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