Interesting. I see a number of sources like national corn growers association, etc. Which I would not trust too much either. What I'd like to see is a pilot plant that runs the whole process from planting, fertilizing, harvesting, distilling, etc. on ethanol from corn with a net energy gain. It all depends on your assumptions.
--Interesting. I see a number of sources like national corn growers association, etc. Which I would not trust too much either. What I'd like to see is a pilot plant that runs the whole process from planting, fertilizing, harvesting, distilling, etc. on ethanol from corn with a net energy gain. It all depends on your assumptions.--
Did you read their criticisms of Mr. P's assumptions?
Who would you expect to counter false low numbers in the corn yield and energy contained in the ethanol, oil companies? You can debate some of his items, but those don't come close to actual data of decades.