Where can you grow sugarcane in the US? Hawaii and Carolina? On 8/7/08, Aleksandr Milewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Many scientists calculate that it takes as much or more > > >energy to produce ethanol as can be obtained from it. > > > > These "scientists" are obviously not familiar with: > > www.e3biofuels.com <http://www.e3biofuels.com> > > I'd love to read a real description of the energy in and out of that > plant, including corn production. Their website is, predictably, full of > manure. > > From their description: > "or more accurately, harvest clean solar energy by way of our middleman, > the humble cow" > > Uhh...last I checked, cows don't photosynthesize. > > What's interesting here is that they're a) using manure (via anerobic > digestion) to fire the ethanol plant, and b) feeding the distiller's > grain back to the cows. So they're using cows to recover energy from the > waste products on the plant, and using that energy to run the plant itself. > > But you still have to grow corn and feed that into the plant. It still > affects food supplies, and even if you accept their 5:1 corn-to-pump > efficiency, that's still worse than sugar cane, much less the cellulosic > ethanol stuff that's coming. > > I'll leave the merits of distiller's grain as cattle feed to a different > discussion. > > The environmental movement really needs a few good macroeconomists. > > _______________________________________________ > Miatapower mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.miatapower.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/miatapower >
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