Posted on 05/09/2008 8:35:13 AM PDT by 300magnum
These will take off and the price of “cheap sugar” from Mexico will skyrocket.
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BINGO!!!
Relative of Junior Johnson?
Ok, I’m sure every county/city has several ordinances about running backyard/garage stills. Aside from that aspect there are a few fire hazard issues working with stills & pure alcohol. I don’t see this being applicable to 97% of the population.
Add Washington State.
Would 35 gal./wk. keep the whole membership in good “spirits”?
Where?
If you have any soldering skills you can build a 5 gallon/hr output compact still with a $30.00 investment here:
http://running_on_alcohol.tripod.com/id3.html
uuhhh...yeah it does...with proper paperwork.
For every tank full of ethanol you use, someone starves to death.
“Where?”
say “please” LOL
With the technology that one could use to make a batch of meth, one could make ethanol from cellulose. I would rather be brewing up old newspaper than impacting the world’s sugar prices.
Pretty please?
Good luck with that.
It’s not the oil companies. I would love to give the oil companies free reign and let them drill to their hearts content. We’d be back down to gas wars and $.25 a gallon.
But that’s not going to happen. Not as long as the hate-America socialists who run the WH and Congress keep running the WH and Congress.
Which, by the way, is the main reason I won’t be voting for McCain. If we’re going to have a hate-America socialist running the country, I want it to be OBVIOUS, not STEALTH.
I’m SICK of stealth hate-America socialists. I either want them all gone, or I want it very obvious what’s going on.
Quite a bit overstated there. in 2006, the US generated 26.6 Million Megawatthours by wind power.
Electricity Net Generation From Renewable Energy by Energy Use Sector and Energy Source, 2002-2006 http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/solar.renewables/page/trends/table1_11.html
The smallest commercial Nuclear plant I found is Fort Calhoun, Nebraska, 476 MW. If it could run 100% 24/7 for a year it would produce 4.17 Million Megawattshours. So US wind averaged 6.4 times as much power as our smallest Nuclear plant is capable of doing. But even Nuclear plants don't average 100% capacity.
Fort Calhoun Station near Omaha, Nebraska
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/nuclear/page/at_a_glance/reactors/fort_calhoun.html
Now, all plants, including nuclear plants, have down time. So lets look at the industry average. In 2006, we generated 787.2 Million Megawatthours from Nuclear.
Net Generation by Energy Source by Type of Producer, 1995 through 2006
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epa/epat1p1.html
There are 104 US Nuclear units in the US.
U.S. Nuclear Reactors
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/nuclear/page/nuc_reactors/reactsum.html
So our average Nuclear reactor is producing 7.57 Million Megawatthours per year and our total wind generation is producing 3.5 times our average nuclear unit.
I am in favor of more nuclear plants and I am against targeted subsidies like those for wind. But I would like to see honest information used to make our decisions about our energy needs.
pay 10 K for this machine, that probably devours electricity, which will convert mountains of sugar [sold separately] into ethanol, for only $1/gal...that few, if anyones engine will swallow without gagging...
then it gets even better by selling off carbon credits to offset the cost...
Now all we need is dingy pelosi to offer a tax credit and itll be a grand slam...
Can you believe that this is adult humans coming up with this concept?
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