Re:Not now..... (Score 1)

But I think the extraction method in the article has some promise in making it more cost effective and offers a new way to use it. Not to get picky, but the method in the article is a way to take ethanol and convert it into hydrogen to use in a fuel cell. It doesn't matter if your ethanol comes from corn or petrochemicals. In my personal opinion, we won't be using Biomass fuels until crude oil becomes so scare/expensive that we have too. It seems like the big problem with Biomass is that it costs money for your starting materials (someone has to farm them). Crude oil is just sitting in the ground waiting to be pumped out. Of course, once you run out, game over. Good reason to develop alternate technolgies now. I guess my point is there's lots of ways to power a car (combustion engine, solar, nuclear, fuel cell, etc.) but in terms of all considerations (comfort, safety, performance, etc.), gasoline just works best right now for a variety of reasons. Don't get me wrong, i'd love to see a world with no reliance on fossil fuels, but right now there isn't sufficient driving force to get it to happen.