Yum, corn cob chowder - twice the fiber without all that pesky nutrition.
For God’s Sake, Corn is for eating and drinking. Corn cobs are for wiping your a**.
That’s it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ethanol has screwed over so many people in so many ways it isn’t even funny.
Why not both you ask????? One answer is that best possible from corn is around 20 gallons/acre/year while algae offers more like 20,000. Producing ethanol from corn is basically a criminal activity; anybody caught doing it ought rightly to be hanged.
An old joke around here; What food do you remove the outside, cook the inside, and throw away the inside?
The author of this article knows practically NOTHING about the process. Look at his terminology. Several have mentioned the traditional use for corn cobs,,, there is also corn cob jelly (made from cobs not previously used in the outhouse). Other than that, cobs were often used as a quick fuel source in Grandma's cookstove when she was getting a fire started. But I've never heard of anyone actually eating corncobs, altho I'll bet it happened during the Depression and the Dust Bowl.
I think what the author intended to say was the GRAIN would be used for human consumption; or the kernnels would be used for livestock feed.
And most likely the author intended to imply that the STOVER would be used for celulosic ethanol, rather than the hay.
What I'm trying to say is no one with any knowledge about raising corn would use the terminology we see in this article. Makes me wonder what else in the article is wrong.
Well some serious city slickers wrote this article. Corn straw? How ‘bout stover?
Not a fan of ethanol for other reasons, but we need to start breaking corn down better into it’s oil, protein and sugar components, selling the first two and fermenting the last into some useful chemical. Might hurt the soda pop industry a bit but that’s about it.
Ethanol fuel mandates don’t make much sense right now. We need the ethanol for human consumption.