Ethanol Statistics

365: Days one person could be fed on the corn needed to fill an ethanol fueled SUV
$100 billion: Estimated size of the 2010 biofuel market.

2000-15000 gallons: Amount of biodiesel produced in one year by one acre of algae
300 gallons: Amount of ethanol produced by one acre of corn

75%: Drop in food prices from 1974 to 2005
$2.20: Corn price per bushel, January 2006
$6.00: Corn price per bushel, April 3, 2008


Sources:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1725975,00.html
http://www.redorbit.com/news/business/1315297/algae_can_help_us_move_past_ethanols_problems/
http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displaystory.cfm?subjectid=7216688&story_id=10252015
http://www.mfahealthtrack.net/mfa-content/graph1.pdf
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ixWlEKVzYLBv7gFujF5QhIUwtGqAD8VQJHLO0

Exxon Profits vs. Renewable Energy Funding

$1.5 Billion
Amount of money ExxonMobil made in two weeks during the fourth quarter of 2008. [1]

$1.5 Billion
Amount US government spends a year on renewable energy research. [2]

[1] http://www.desmogblog.com/gas-prices-up-globe-still-warming-and-exxonmobil-earnings-soar
[2] http://www.energy.gov/about/budget.htm

Offsetting Farts: By Switching Off Lightbulbs

Written in correlation with Thoughts on Global Warming, Thoughts on the World, and The Statistics Monster.


Humanity is facing quite a serious epidemic: farts. Humanity’s gaseous eating habits are causing methane and CO2 to be released into the atmosphere. Your buttocks are like factories wearing pants.

The average human farts 12-18 times a day. That means, every day, the average human produces 45 milliliters of CO2 and 35 milliliters of methane. Methane, by the way, is 25 times as potent of a greenhouse gas as CO2.

That is a lot of gas. Therefore, my friends, I have come up with a solution to our flatulence-epidemic.

Every time one farts, one must turn off one lightbulb for thirty seconds to offset the greenhouse gases produced by one’s anus.

Simple as that. We don’t even need oversight or regulation. Just keep track for yourself, like the guy in the picture.

Bottled Water Refund Payout per State

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There are 12 states with bottle deposit refunds. You know, those things where you bring in your bottles and they give you money? Here they are:

California: 5 or 10 cents
Connecticut: 5 cents
Delaware: 5 cents
Hawaii: 5 cents
Iowa: 5 cents, also applies to wine bottles
Maine: 5 cents, also applies to fruit juice and bottled water, 15 cents for some wine bottles
Massachusetts: 5 cents
Michigan: 10 cents
New York: 5 cents
Oregon: 5 cents
Vermont: 5 cents

The northeast seems to have the highest amount of states with a refund policy.

Source: Wikipedia

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