Date: 29 Mar 2006 21:09:03 GMT From: Dave Hinz <DaveHinznospamcop.net> Subject: Re: Ethanol ?
On 29 Mar 2006 12:31:06 -0800, SmaartAasSaabr <smaartaassaabrnospaml.com> wrote: > You have to have a fuel system able to cope... fuel lines and such. > Ethanol is rather corrosive. I think that was worked out rather a long time ago though? > Here's something to consider... in Sweden they are making their ethanol > from waste cellulose garbage (eg waste from lumber industry). Wouldn't that be methanol then? Or is there some conversion going on that I don't know about? > In > Brazil, where the ethanol has really been a big thing, they make it > from sugarcane. Anything with fermentable sugars can turn into ethanol. > To be honest, making grain alcohol from corn isn't the most efficient > system possible. Could be, but if the economics indicate a different crop, then supply and demand will work out the imbalances. Lots of idle farmland in the US, with people getting paid around 75 dollars per acre per year not to farm it. > And also... Saab went to GM do Brasil to investigate what they do > making the cars run on pure ethanol. So GM isn't all that bad ;> Even a blind pig finds an acorn once in a while.
