Re: ETHANOL OR METHANOL?



Bob Eld wrote:

"Eeyore" wrote.

Biofuels will be a useful adjunct but will never replace petroleum. At
best I hear estimates of them eventually providing maybe 10% of energy
currently
provided by oil.


Naw! If that is true we are really in trouble. Ten percent has to be a very
pessimistic number probably based on corn and sugar cane ethanol, fry oil
and little else

Not as I understand it. Why not try doing the sums ?

Graham

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