U.S. Sustainable Energy Corp. demos economical fuel for deisel and gas engine (Video link)

http://www.ussec.us/index.php?page=87 ^ | 10/31/2006 | USSE

[Rodm]

Reported to made 5 gallons of fuel per bushel of soy beans. Cost less than 50 cents a gallon.

[P-40]

If it works as stated, someone now owns some valuable patents.

[camle]

problem is that if wee converted, it would take more real estate to grow all the soy beans required for our use than in the whoole country. at best it'll be a niche market, hence the prices will be higher anyway.

[Maringa]

I'm sorry, I'm not a farmer type...How much is a bushel? How much land does it take to grow a bushel?

[Yo-Yo]

A diesel story not posted by you! You're slacking off! </kidding>

[Rodm]

60 lbs = bushel

200,000 bushels = 1.0 million gallons

[Red Badger]

I was researching other stuff.............

[Red Badger]

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[P-40]

How much is a bushel?

About four pecks. :)

[TexasCajun]

But where would I get my tofu?

[Recon Dad]

How many bushels can you expect out of an acre of land?

[camle]

more importantly - how many gallons of yield per acre?

[Recon Dad]

I found a bushel number by googling I don't know if it's a good number or not but it's a number.


The 1997 soybean yields on the demonstration sites were 57 bushels per acre at site 1, 40 bushels per acre at site 2, and 56 bushels per acre at site 3.

[P-40]

at best it'll be a niche market

It has already grown to well more than a niche market.

http://www.biodiesel.org/pdf_files/fuelfactsheets/Production_Graph_Slide.pdf

[Recon Dad]

Well, if you can average 50 bushels per acre and you get 5 gallons per acre I get 250 gallons per acre. A million acres and now we're 250MM gallons of fuel.

How many gallons of fuel do you get out of a barrel of oil, anyone?

[Rodm]

The end products are 7-3-7 Fertilizer, A gas fuel, and a liquid fuel. The fuel is not made from soy bean oil but directly from processing soy beans.

[Rodm]

40 gallons of fuel from a barrel of oil

[Rodm]

40 gallons of fuel from a barrel of oil

[camle]

well lemme see...

55 bushels per acre. even if you get 100% conversion (55 gallons per acre - which we all know we will not get), that comes out to be about three tankfuls of gas. A week and a half for most drivers. So if that is true, then to supply one single car you'd require 52weeks/year/1.4 weeks per acre = 34.6 acres per year for every car.

now if you plant a million acres, and we may agree that this is not really feasible at this time, but let's use one million acres as a hypothesis, you can power at most one million acres/34.6 acres per car = 28-29 thousand cars.

how many cars are there in the US?

[An Old Man]

Yields vary dependent upon climate and soil.

From the USDA Statistics:

1983 26.2 Bu/Ac
1994 41.4
2003 33.4

Look here for more! http://www.soystats.com/2004/Default-frames.htm