[stboz]

In a word.....infrastructure.....lack of it actually.

Methanol has a better chance whether in the internal combustion engine or in direct methanol fuel cells.

BTW, biodiesel is intriguing....and clean (more so than "normal diesel.)

[John Jamieson]

Methanol works in Brazil as M85. But farm labor is cheap there and they don't use near as much fuel to grow corn. They also don't grow near as much corn per acrer. In this country we use twice as much energy to make methanol as we get out of it (Thats why the big ADM subsidies).

We could all lower our wages and go back to work on the farm. I'm not ready. Give me a cheaper, better solution. Japan and France already generate just about all their electricity with nuclear power. You can't win by going backwards.

[RightWhale]

Methanol has a better chance whether in the internal combustion engine or in direct methanol fuel cells.

It appears so. The PR is lacking so far, but the hydrogen hype will blow over. It's methane.

[r9etb]

BTW, biodiesel is intriguing....and clean (more so than "normal diesel.)

It is until you start looking at the acreage required to supply the equivalent of 30 billion gallons of diesel per year. Even if biodiesel made up 2% of the total, it's tens of millions of acres.

[r9etb]

BTW, biodiesel is intriguing....and clean (more so than "normal diesel.)

It is until you start looking at the acreage required to supply the equivalent of 30 billion gallons of diesel per year. Even if biodiesel made up 2% of the total, it's tens of millions of acres.

[bimbo]

BTW, biodiesel is intriguing....and clean (more so than "normal diesel.)

They have clean diesel power all over Europe ... it is only political considerations keeping it out of the U.S.