142 gallons of water needed to produce 1 gallon of fuel additive
Posted: May 04, 2009
12:46 pm Eastern
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A new study shows that ethanol production consumes much more water
than was previously thought, as much as 2,000 gallons of water for
every gallon of ethanol produced in states where crops must be
irrigated, Jerome Corsi's Red Alert reports.
Publishing results in Environmental Science & Technology,
scientists from the University of Minnesota concluded, "The results
show that as the ethanol industry expands to areas that apply more
irrigated water than others, consumptive water appropriation by
bioethanol in the U.S. has increased from 1.9 to 6.1 trillion liters
between 2005 and 2008, whereas U.S. bioethanol production has increased
only 133 percent from 15 to 24 billion liters during the same period."