I feel like Jed Clampett....sitting on a gold mine of grass that I'll sell to the highest bidder. U.S. Army Retired |
Dude, grass will also give you the munchies.
Switchgrass is better and it grows with far less water and care than corn. I also understand that farmers don’t like it because by pushing corn, the price of corn gets pushed up due to competition between corn as a food product and energy source. Maybe farmers need to work on a per-BTU pricing structure.
Ron Paul supporters hardest hit.
I’m sure the eco wacks and statists will be along shortly to protest any possible alternatives to foreign oil.
the hippies got excited there for a minute util it was explained it was for switchgrass.
(then they got the munchies and tried to eat it)
Then we can all recycle our grass clippings, get a tax credit, and make fuel for the auto????????
Ungrammatical headline.
Ethanol is a chemical formula. It’s chemically identical regardless of the feedstock.
What they meant is that switchgrass makes a better feedstock, but that’s not what they said.
Using grass for fuel is great and all, but where am I supposed to find rolling papers big enough to hold my car?
Logically, cellulosic material should be usable to create ethanol. This information on switchgrass is quite interesting because of the increased energy component of the final product, when compared to corn.
Clearly deserves more research.
We need to get off foreign oil; all foreign oil. Ehtanol is but one way to help achieve that end. Others include increased drilling in domestic properties, construction of new refineries, and deployment of more solar, wind, hydroelectric and nuclear generation caoacity.
Time for the tree huggers and enviro-whackos to get out of the way.
Sugar cane makes better ethanol than either, but they don’t row it where it will do either party any political good.
Corn-based ethanol was ALWAYS a bad idea for biofuels.
Better idea - burn the refuse from the corn grain production, applying something called Startech’s Plasma Converter System, which may also be used to transform feedstock materials such as used tires, municipal solid waste and biomass into ethanol.
This is a concept straight out of Star Wars, and it has been refined to a pretty high level. Electricity may be co-generated with this process, and in the end, it is practically carbon-neutral, if it is using only organic waste. A secondary by-product from the plasma, a kind of slag that could be used as a building material, is formed from the inorganic substances that are dumped with the organic trash.
A third byproduct, heat, may be used directly to generate the energy needed to create the plasma torch that is the heart of the system, creating a temperature of 33,000 degrees Fahrenheit at the center of the torch. Not perpetual motion, but a great deal derived from something that is essentially a disposal problem. Look it up.
http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/2006_articles/Raw_Materials.pdf
If grass works as a fuel without the magical application of tax subsidy, then more power to it.
Whether you use grass or corn, it causes more CO2 to be released into the atmosphere to manufacture ethanol than to just use gasoline. Not that CO2 released into the atmosphere makes any difference to anything.
DUH, I guess this is result of millions of dollars of government funded research.
www.gasification.org/Docs/2006_Papers/27LAND.pdf
There is a plant that is about to be (started on) constructed at NewPage paper corp in Escanaba Mi.
They are in the initial stages of planning at this time.
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