What car will you drive?

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What fuel will it run on?

Short- and long-term availability Cost to develop, produce and distribute Net energy yield of balance Environmental impact Sustainability: renewable, nonrenewable, or

nonexhaustible

Biodiesel: Soybean, Algae Ethanol: Corn, Algae, other Biomass energy

sources (sugarcane, sugarbeets, wood, switchgrass, etc.)

Geothermal Hydropower Solar Coal Wind

Oil prices are linked to food …and most everything else… food costs more because the energy to produce the food costs more.

High Grain Prices Biofuel demand Global shortages

related to weather Speculation

Production Cycle• Fields of Energy DVD• Web stream www.agclassroom.org

Advantages & Disadvantages• Subsidies• Environmental Impacts

Future of the fuel, could the U.S. run on biofuel?

Ethanol Plant• Super Yeast: Making ethanol production more efficient• Switchgrass Science

Biodiesel Plant• Fats to Fuel• Algae (QuickTime Movie for download)

YouTube Algae Movies Green Fuel – Algae (History Channel)

Hydrogen• Algae Research

http://www.need.org/ http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html http://www.infinitepower.org/lessonplans.htm http://www.nrel.gov/learning/ http://www1.eere.energy.gov/biomass/

for_students.html