Could U get bio-fuels from besides corn based ethanol?

Question

Could U get bio-fuels from besides corn based ethanol?

Answer 1

there just seems something humanely wrong with using a food product for fuel...

i'd much rather see a more sustainable crop grown; ie, switch grass, brushy woodland products etc..anything that will continually grow time and time again after each harvest with out tearing up the soil and loosing it to erosion.

i've heard said even if we turn every single acre of farm ground in the US to corn..no hay, no pasture, no cotton, no vineyards, no pineapples etc..every acre! there would only be a 21 day supply of ethanol!...thats pretty devastating when you figure how much fuel was required to plant, maintain, harvest and ship the corn crop!

Answer 2

Sure, Helium is a good one.

Water is a bomb ready to go off, two parts Hydrogen one part Oxygen.

Tidal Flows, they are doing it in Europe.

Methane, or p**p will be around as long as people that burn the junk is.

Natural Gas, well is gas, but is not refined petroleum.

Steam

Gravity

Wind

Answer 3

yes you can get ethanol from many sources than have high amounts of different types of sugars. corn is used mainly because there is a surplus of it in America so more uses for it would increase the price per bushel to relive farmers reliance on government subsidies. back to the question, yes you can, sugar cane is much more efficient than corn but more expensive

Answer 4

Yes.  Any grain (or anything) that is fermentable can produce ethanol.  Wheat, oats, potatoes, sugar beets, sugar cane, even the stalks of grains can produce ethanol, among other things.  To be a viable alternative the process must be cheap and efficient, which is a matter of research and some debate.

Oil products such as canola can also be used for bio-diesel.

Answer 5

you can make bio-fuels from wood too.

Answer 6

Yes i think you can make fuel out of soy beans and maybe other plants.