More "Miles Per Acre" From Bioelectricity Than Ethanol 223
CarnegieScience writes "Scientist calculate that, compared to ethanol used for internal combustion engines, bioelectricity used for battery-powered vehicles would deliver an average of 80% more miles of transportation per acre of crops, while also providing double the greenhouse gas offsets to mitigate climate change."
Units? (Score:5, Funny)
Am I the only one who imagines bioelectricity (Score:4, Funny)
As a bunch of (electric) eels tied with electric cord??
Re:Units? (Score:5, Funny)
Some of us live in the United States, you ethnocentric insensitive clod!
Re:Units? (Score:2, Funny)
Put it in "H"!!!
Re:mpg is 1/d^2, mpa is 1/d... (Score:5, Funny)
Great, now I have this vision stuck in my head of a gasoline-soaked thread stretching out down the road, with a car spooling it up and wringing the gas out to fuel the engine. That's just weird.
I salute you, sir.
Re:Pretty low standards (Score:5, Funny)
So saying that NNN technology is X% better than bioethanol is like saying that doing X is less painful than scraping off your penile foreskin with a cheese grater.
But I'm a masochist you insensitive clod!
Bioelectricity = Matrix (Score:3, Funny)
Morpheus: "The human body generates more bio- electricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 B.T.U.'s of body heat."
Now we just need some poor saps to lock into an energy-harvesting pod while we jack their mind into The Sims 24/7... actually that sounds like a special kind of hell. Perhaps we can give them their choice. Some might choose to live in WoW 24/7... actually some choose to live in WoW 24/7 -already-... perhaps they would be the first to volunteer! It's like getting corporate sponsorship AND never having to shower again, WIN WIN!
Re:mpg is 1/d^2, mpa is 1/d... (Score:5, Funny)
Or in the case of a Hummer, a garden hose.
Re:Pretty low standards Corn Ethanol (Score:4, Funny)
Wait. Corn? Switchgrass? I thought bio-electricity was about breeding electric eels.
Too bad "Put an eel in your tank" has a completely different connotation from "Put a tiger in your tank."