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May 30, 2007

Mark Jacobson's Ethanol study home page

One of the anti-ethanol studies came out of Stanford from this Mark Jacobson. Immediately the EThanol industry and Vinod bashed the guy as a sell-out to Exxon. On his home page: E85vWindSol you can read the report, the industry critique and his response. He claims no Exxon funding directly and that he used a NASA computer. But Exxon IS a big funder of Stanford overall. I e-mailed him and here is his response:
Martin,

Thanks for your email. That's a strange question to ask, but the answer is that the funding came from my Stanford University salary with computer support from NASA. I have no corporate sponsors nor have I ever performed research in my career at the request of any corporation. What makes you ask this question? The conclusions of the study imply that both gasoline and E85 will kill thousands of people each year as gasoline does today, and should be eliminated in favor of cleaner technologies. I think this is common sense and it doesn't require a corporate sponsor to draw such a conclusion.

The published paper and responses to industrial people and other advocates are located at

http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/E85vWindSol

Sincerely,
Mark Jacobson

My summary: He is right that any internal combustion of anything is worse than electric or fuel cell. Unfortunately we are going to have internal combustion and diesel engines on the road for many many years, so we better get alternatives for them. We are not going to change the fleet in time.

Posted by Martin at May 30, 2007 12:22 PM

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