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To: BitWielder1

My guess is that the process is fairly slow, and doesn’t produce great volumes of ethanol. If the voltage requirement isn’t too high, it might be viable to do this using a two-layer solar panel: the top layer is the photo cells producing the voltage, feeding a layer just underneath of the carbon-copper catalyst (maximize surface area) that runs more or less continually producing a small but steady stream of ethanol. Get a field of these going and you might have something.


12 posted on 10/19/2016 7:54:15 AM PDT by Little Pig
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To: Little Pig

I doubt any process we invent is ever going to be more efficient than just letting plants convert the sunlight into sugar and then letting yeast convert the sugars into ethanol.


41 posted on 10/19/2016 8:28:14 AM PDT by Boogieman
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