Re: Ethanol Bites the Dust
Ethanol from other (preferably non-food) feedstocks still makes perfect sense.
Graham
When ethanol can be made from cellulose material do it.
The promise of ethanol from cellulose is a placebo.
Biobutanol seems to make some sense.
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Relevant Pages
- Re: Grass Makes Better Ethanol than Corn Does
... becoming a biofuel economy, planting huge tracts of land for the first ... DETROIT - General Motors Corp said on Sunday it has bought a stake in start-up biofuel company Coskata Inc. which has developed a commercially viable process to bring cellulose-based ethanol to the market in 2011." ... NEW YORK...Cellulosic is a next-generation ethanol that uses microbes and other techniques to make fuel from the woody bits -- or cellulose -- of nonfood crops such as switchgrass and poplar trees. ...
(misc.survivalism) - Re: Grass Makes Better Ethanol than Corn Does
... becoming a biofuel economy, planting huge tracts of land for the first ... GM eyes breakthrough in cellulosic ethanol ... Scientists pursuing cellulosic ethanol: DOE ... what is your beef with me writing "Cellulose to alcohol hasen't been done ...
(misc.survivalism) - "In other words, we dont have a clue..."
... Ethanol use "might" reduce greenhouse gasses by 10-15%. ... GREAT DEAL more than corn or oil, ... Dan Kammen and Alex Farrell of the Energy and Resources Group at UC ... is produced not from corn but from woody, fibrous plants: cellulose. ...
(rec.autos.makers.ford.mustang) - Re: Grass Makes Better Ethanol than Corn Does
... proving that it can deliver more than five times more energy than it ... Cellulose to ... deliver an average of 13.1 megajoules of energy as ethanol for every ... timber industry into biofuels and chemicals. ...
(misc.survivalism) - Re: national hypocrisy
... Ethanol can be made from cellulose... ... of our garbage can be recycled into fuel. ... That grain is much better used to feed people. ...
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