Let's hear it for Frankenfood!
Wow... You mean cows turn plant stuff into methane? I never knew /sarc
insanity of the liberal loons at it's best.
The problem with cellulosic is the hauling. Corn kernels are dense with carbs and the weight for a given volume, in this case a semi trailer, is much heavier than with cellulose material, meaning less trips to the refinery to get the same gallons of ethanol.
Unless they plan to tightly bale the stuff I just don’t see how it’s going to be economic to go from corn to stalk for ethanol because of the increased hauling costs. I think something like concentrated sorghum syrup with water removed would be a better route to go for ethanol production.
We don't need to reinvent the wheel. Just drill.
so if you have the cows eat the hybrid corn, do you get Premium out of ‘em
An interesting bit of research. The question is whether it will ever produce a gallon of alcohol. Farmers will have to be convinced to grow the new corn and harvest the stalks and if and if..if..if.
It’s curious that nobody ever talks about using ethanol for home heating; it should work fine there and the lower energy density just means a bigger ‘heating oil’ tank or marginally more frequent fillups.
As far as this particular breakthrough is concerned, cellulosic ethanol ‘breakthroughs’ are getting to be as frequent as cancer ‘breakthroughs’. It remains to be seen where the “But...” is in this one, if there is a “But....”
Wouldn’t it make more sense to insert that gene into switchgrass instead of corn???
Question...
Has anyone done the math on how many more acres of corn production it would take (assuming good growing conditions) to cover what the latest round of environmental laws requires? Even if the process of actually making ethanol gets more efficient...
Breakthrough In Biofuel Production Process
Science Daily | Apr. 8, 2008 | staff
Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 09:43:55 PM by saganite
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998765/posts