Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Ethanol Effect refers to the unintended consequences of United States' reliance on the biofuel ethanol as a substitute for fossil fuels and as a quick-fix solution for America’s reliance on foreign oil in a post 9/11 world. The term was first coined, according to American Public Media’s Marketplace Radio, by a University of Iowa study in 2007.Ethanol champions declare corn as the \"new oil\" and that it will forever end our dependence on the unstable OPEC nations. Sustainability advocates say that new and advanced methods of growing crops, that weren’t present 20 years ago, will more than cover the world’s food and fuel needs.Environmental experts point to the fact that filling a 25-US-gallon (95 L) tank on an SUV with pure ethanol requires more than 450 pounds of corn, enough to feed one person for an entire year, and that in order to produce 1 billion US gallons (3.8×109 L) of corn ethanol requires, at a minimum, 1,600 billion US gallons (6.1×1012 L) of water, enough to meet the needs of the all 8 million people of the city of Chicago for three years.Recent ethanol production processes, however, yield 378L of ethanol and 309 kg of high-proteine cereal fit for human and animal (milk cows, egg-laying chicken) consumption from 1 tonne of corn, with 170L of water recuperated during the drying process. A large fraction of the high-proteine DDGS cereal from US production is exported to China, Mexico, Canada and other countries."@en }
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- Ethanol_effect abstract "The Ethanol Effect refers to the unintended consequences of United States' reliance on the biofuel ethanol as a substitute for fossil fuels and as a quick-fix solution for America’s reliance on foreign oil in a post 9/11 world. The term was first coined, according to American Public Media’s Marketplace Radio, by a University of Iowa study in 2007.Ethanol champions declare corn as the \"new oil\" and that it will forever end our dependence on the unstable OPEC nations. Sustainability advocates say that new and advanced methods of growing crops, that weren’t present 20 years ago, will more than cover the world’s food and fuel needs.Environmental experts point to the fact that filling a 25-US-gallon (95 L) tank on an SUV with pure ethanol requires more than 450 pounds of corn, enough to feed one person for an entire year, and that in order to produce 1 billion US gallons (3.8×109 L) of corn ethanol requires, at a minimum, 1,600 billion US gallons (6.1×1012 L) of water, enough to meet the needs of the all 8 million people of the city of Chicago for three years.Recent ethanol production processes, however, yield 378L of ethanol and 309 kg of high-proteine cereal fit for human and animal (milk cows, egg-laying chicken) consumption from 1 tonne of corn, with 170L of water recuperated during the drying process. A large fraction of the high-proteine DDGS cereal from US production is exported to China, Mexico, Canada and other countries.".