RE: ethanol

1999-02-17 Thread Mackey David
A couple of interesting points: Brazil already has 3.6 million pure ethanol driven vehicles on the road... And they're turning the Amazon Basin into a wasteland at an alarming rate. Maybe Jay has the figures to do the accounting on this. Enough

Re: ethanol

1999-02-17 Thread Jay Hanson
And they're turning the Amazon Basin into a wasteland at an alarming rate. Maybe Jay has the figures to do the accounting on this. Enough "cellulosic biomass" -- typically, that means trees -- to Neither ethanol nor methanol has the potential to "replace" fossil fuels -- mostly because of

Re: [GKD] Training Y2K Specialists

1999-02-17 Thread Christoph Reuss
Thomas Lunde persisted: and for that you need some guys to sit in front of terminals for months at a time, making corrections and hoping that they are not making the problem worse. I want to know about those guys? Do we have them? India has them, for instance. India is one of the main

FW: Re ethanol

1999-02-17 Thread pete
Mackey David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most Ethanal is manufactured from agricultural crops such as sugar cane, corn and wheat starch. Ethanol can be produced from trees but the production costs are very high and have only been experimental. Brazil uses sugar cane to produce most of its

Re: Y2K

1999-02-17 Thread P.A. Gantt
Subject: Y to K Status Report Y-to-K Date Change Project Status Report "Our staff has completed the 18 months of work on time and on budget. We have gone through every line of code in every program in every system. We have analyzed all databases, all data files, including backups and

Re: FW: Re ethanol

1999-02-17 Thread Michael Spencer
Um, this is straying kinda far off topic, but when Pete Vincent wrote: As to "cellulosic biomass", that is protein,... I hope you were making a thinko/typo. I suppose any aggregate biomass contains some protein but cellulose is a polysaccharide -- a sugar polymer -- not protein -- amino acid

Re: FW: Re ethanol

1999-02-17 Thread pete
Michael Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Um, this is straying kinda far off topic, but when Pete Vincent wrote: As to "cellulosic biomass", that is protein,... I hope you were making a thinko/typo. I suppose any aggregate biomass contains some protein but cellulose is a polysaccharide --

Re: FW: Re ethanol

1999-02-17 Thread Ray E. Harrell
Just be sure you don't heat it.As I found out heat or micro-waves kill enzymes. REH pete wrote: Michael Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Um, this is straying kinda far off topic, but when Pete Vincent wrote: As to "cellulosic biomass", that is protein,... I hope you were making