we have made enough mess as of now ... be it global warming, plastic menace, depleting non-renewal resources etc. There are a lot of man made problems and fewer man made marvelous technology. Lets start with gasoline, petroleum has been used and abused like anything before, each by-product of petroleum is utilized fully and the cost of this is global warming leading to unseasonal temperature changes, a threat to ocean resources and finally funding the middle east. Now there is a kind of alarm which is ringing and people are sitting up and thinking hard. It is mainly due to the fact that oil is a scarce commodity which translates to price gouging and results in increase in costs of anything and everything. So all these bunch of smart guys came up with ethanol, a hydrocarbon substitute which could be added in small quantities to gasoline to bring costs low. Does it bring costs low? i dont know but those ethanol pumps displays prices more or less equal to 100% gasoline. Now the major problem is ethanol produced from corn, all these farmers are sensing fortunes in growing corn and have an opportunity to become ethanol barons sooner or latter. Its a good thing that we are less dependent on petroleum as we grow renewable corn but the thing is as farmers grow more of corn than wheat or other things, there is a danger of compromising food stocks in favor of money obtained from corn based ethanol. This will be a grave problem unless government comes up and says that all ethanol could be produced from by-products of edible crops meaning you need to get the food out and the wastage after this must be the fodder for ethanol. So why cant people get into solar or human energy rather than on hydro carbons? Can they just invest in technology that can break bonds in plastics and convert them into hydrocarbons? why cant anyone think of technology to break down freely available water into hydrogen which can be a wonderful source of energy as its combustion with oxygen is water water and water. Pure water can become the solution to water scarcity.
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