Bio-ethanol needs water

This week the environmental news is full of reports that bio-ethanol production uses more water than was previously thought.

Many of them say that the usage is about three times higher than was previously claimed, something that may not be welcome news in parts of the World where water is in short supply.

However, it is not all bad news.  Apparently Minnesota and Iowa, for whatever reason, use less water than other states in the production process.

I wonder if making it from wood chippings, as is often the case in Scandinavia, needs more or less?

GSM

GSM stands for Global System for Mobile communications and is the the mobile phone standard common in many parts of the world.  It has been the main standard in Germany since the middle of the 1990s.

The two GSM frequencies in Germany are known as D-Netz and E-Netz.

The standard also covers features such as SMS (Kurznachrichten), which started out as a by-product and is now one of the most popular ways of using a mobile phone.

To hear a simple explanation and a short discussion in German, listen to the podcast:

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Volvo XC60 6-cylinder bio-ethanol engine

It’s amazing what sort of videos some people upload to the internet.  Here is a video of a car with a bio-ethanol engine.  Very quiet, and no engine views unfortunately.

Could it be an advertisement for a paint protection product?

Link: 11762 0 5s 06 Volvo XC60 6 cylinder bio ethanol engine

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