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To: camle
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
14 posted on 11/01/2006 11:54:02 AM PST by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: P-40

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.


16 posted on 11/01/2006 11:58:29 AM PST by Rodm (Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings)
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To: P-40

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?


19 posted on 11/01/2006 12:00:20 PM PST by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you)
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