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To: rusty millet

[There is a huge difference between fermenting grain sugars and trying to ferment the breakdown products of cellulose.]

Will that make a difference to the grifters who will profit from constructing the fiasco?

I expect it will be as profitable a boondoggle as Ethanol is... to some.


17 posted on 01/30/2013 3:38:35 AM PST by TArcher
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To: TArcher

There is a difference. Let’s at least agree that ethanol is a liquid fuel that can be used in a diluted state in internal combustion engines. It has a lot of problems, but it is a fuel.

Ethanol is a profitable product of grain fermentation when the DDGS are part of the economic equation. The main problem is that it is still being heavily subsidized.

“Cellulosic ethanol” is a scam. The yield of ethanol is miniscule to barely existent, and there are no useful co-products. The more ethanol on the market, the cheaper it becomes and the more important co-products become.

Between cost of feedstock production, transportation, storage, processing, fermentation, and storage, there is no equation that will bring the process into the black. It is a scam of monumental proportions.


18 posted on 01/30/2013 7:29:30 AM PST by rusty millet
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