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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