Made from food?! What's wrong with waste? As I remember, US
agriculture is extraordinarily greedy of conventional forms of
energy. It already consumes more fuel energy than the food energy
produced, a negative investment, so making it from a crop would be
socially and environmentally disastrous - only govt. subsidy would
make it profitable.
One of the problems with this is that such fuels may be made from
potential foodstuffs (inc. animal feeds) or use land that could
produce foods - and the world is a little short of nutrition. Here
petrol/ethanol blends are available but the ethanol is made from
sugar cane wastes. There was an African project I remember that made
alcohol for fuel from the giant water hyacinth that clogs the Congo
waterways - a win-win situation.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 14/05/2006, at 12:23 PM, Mike wrote:
>
> Charlie and Lynn, local suppliers, have just started selling B99 bio
> diesel again after losing the original supply. Made from soybeans from
> somewhere like Iowa. Priced substancially cheaper @ $3.30/gal
> than the
> normal diesel or unleaded gasoline now running north of $3.50/gal.
> here.
> Also have B20 bio diesel. SW WA state will soon be producing a major
> amount of bio diesel in a new facility now under construction.
>
> mike
>
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