Peter Gleick: Water for energy: The bad bet for biofuels

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Water Number: 50 gallons of water per mile. This is the water required to produce the ethanol biofuels needed to drive a car ONE mile, using irrigated corn. This number comes from a recent Environmental Science and Technology (ES&T) …

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Peter Gleick: Water for energy: The bad bet for biofuels

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