Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote: > Jim Sharkey wrote: > >>I'm sure some of you knew this, what with your big brains and all, >>but I found it interesting: >> >>http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=grass-makes-better-ethanol-than-corn >> >>_Scientific American_ is saying grass as a source of ethanol has the >>potential to be vastly more efficient than corn. Pretty cool stuff, >>I think. >> > > But still less efficient than sugarcane :-P
Perhaps. The use of corn to produce ethanol is already driving the cost of corn higher, impacting food costs already[1]. I don't think we want to use corn _or_ sugarcane for producing ethanol in the long term. [1] http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/18173/ --[Lance] -- Celebrate The Circle http://www.celebratethecircle.org/ Carolina Spirit Quest http://www.carolinaspiritquest.org/ My LiveJournal http://www.livejournal.com/users/labrown/ GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
