Hi Dick, --- Dick Carlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > brazil is today the only serious ethanol player in > the world. all other ethanol users are amateurs by > comparison. Brazils the man!!! Glad to hear the alcohol programs are going well. Plain text please so we can read you posts easier. > the factory price for a liter of > ae in brazil is $R 0.40, or $R 1.51 a us gallon. > this translates to us$ 0.90 a gallon ! (R=real, the > local currency) > brazil also has developed the world's most efficient > technology for transforming wood to methanol, with > wood charcoal as a by-product. considering that a > typical eucalyptus plantation in brazil yields well > over thirty metric tons of growth per year, per > hectare (27500 pounds per year per acre), brazil is > in a position to launch a methanol/charcoal program > to supplement it's standing ae undertaking. the wood > used in such a program would all be plantation > grown, thus the methanol and charcoal co2 generation > would be neutral or even negative when these > components are burnt. How about giving us some info on the process used in making methanol from wood? Thanks , jerry dycus > so now the rabbit is out of the hat. after this, all > other ethanol efforts will look puny by comparison, > methinks. > > and by the way, making ethanol from corn is half as > efficient as making it from sugarcane. > > enjoy !, dick. >
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