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To: GodGunsGuts

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.


5 posted on 02/04/2009 7:23:54 AM PST by varmintman
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To: varmintman

20 gal/acre/yr? Ethanol? Current corn-based yield in high corn-yield areas is at least 500 gal ethanol per acre per year with about 2,500 lbs of high-protein animal feed/acre as a by-product.


8 posted on 02/04/2009 7:34:24 AM PST by hlmencken3 (Originalist on the the 'general welfare' clause? No? NOT an originalist!)
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To: varmintman

Your ethanol yield estimates from corn are addressed rightfully above. In addition, algae is being proposed as a source of biodiesel, not ethanol. I will believe the yield estimates once pilot experiments are scaled up.


14 posted on 02/04/2009 10:02:16 AM PST by rusty millet
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