Re: Ethanol from grain
- From: Uncle Al <UncleAl0@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:05:53 -0700
Gordon wrote:
A farmer friend of mine recently told me that the argument about
requiring 1.5 gallons of fuel to produce 1 gallon of ethanol is
not quite all there. He said that the 1.5 gallon of fuel to
produce the grain would be expended anyway, just to grow
livestock feed. But, by processing this livestock feed for
ethanol before feeding the residual mash to livestock the ethanol
is actually a wind-fall, and the livestock feed is improved in
the process. That is, the grain that has been processed for
ethanol is "pre-digested" and the livestock can get more of the
nutrients from the processed grain mash than they could get from
unprocessed grain. He called to my attention the fact that in the
olden days farmers let their chickens run with their pigs and
cattle so the chickens could harvest the nutrients that came on
through the pigs and cattle and was left in their dung as waste.
Maybe this is what causes egg yokes to be yellow... ;-]
Animal feed is calories. If you dump the calories into cars you don't
turn them into meat. Brewery waste is a feed bonus not a feed
source. Like co-generation and secondary beneficiation, you are
gleaning the fields not harvesting the crop.
What does a year of bad drought, blight, or locusts do to your
national energy supply? Contraction of animal feed is negotiable by
surplus storage, feed stream diversion, importation, and slaughter.
The point of NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY POLICY is to end energy
imports. It is the venue of corrupt idiots.
--
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