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Subject Author Date OT. Louisiana Leads the way amdx 07-05-2008  Re: OT. Louisiana Leads the way amdx 07-07-2008  Re: OT. Louisiana Leads the way NotMe 07-13-2008  Re: OT. Louisiana Leads the way Steve Ackman 07-15-2008
Posted by amdx on July 5, 2008, 2:38 pm Please log in for more thread options Louisiana has figured out that ethanol from corn is an inefficient stupid process and produced legislation to back it. http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0701-ethanol.html Now if the rest of the states can follow. Farm lobby by d$*^#d. No more corn subsidies.. And what about Butanol. From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butanol_fuel Butanol better tolerates water contamination and is less corrosive than ethanol and more suitable for distribution through existing pipelines (important to an efficient use MK) High octane rating . Higher specific energy than ethanol The feedstocks are the same as for ethanol: energy crops such as sugar beets, sugar cane, corn grain, wheat and cassava as well as agricultural byproducts such as straw and corn stalks (reference needed). Can be made from Algae We need nuclear power and a better battery for autos. We need energy independence. Mike (MK) Posted by amdx on July 7, 2008, 8:37 am Please log in for more thread options > Louisiana has figured out that ethanol from corn is an inefficient stupid > process and produced legislation to back it. > http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0701-ethanol.html > Now if the rest of the states can follow. > Farm lobby by d$*^#d. No more corn subsidies.. > > And what about Butanol. > > From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butanol_fuel > > Butanol better tolerates water contamination and is less corrosive than > ethanol and more suitable for distribution through existing pipelines > (important to an efficient use MK) > > High octane rating . > > Higher specific energy than ethanol > > The feedstocks are the same as for ethanol: energy crops such as sugar > beets, sugar cane, corn grain, wheat and cassava as well as agricultural > byproducts such as straw and corn stalks (reference needed). > > Can be made from Algae > > We need nuclear power and a better battery for autos. > We need energy independence. > Mike (MK) > http://www.butanol.com/ Mike Posted by NotMe on July 13, 2008, 1:38 pm Please log in for more thread options | Louisiana has figured out that ethanol from corn is an inefficient stupid | process and produced legislation to back it. | http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0701-ethanol.html | Now if the rest of the states can follow. | Farm lobby by d$*^#d. No more corn subsidies.. | | And what about Butanol. | | From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butanol_fuel | | Butanol better tolerates water contamination and is less corrosive than | ethanol and more suitable for distribution through existing pipelines | (important to an efficient use MK) | | High octane rating . | | Higher specific energy than ethanol | | The feedstocks are the same as for ethanol: energy crops such as sugar | beets, sugar cane, corn grain, wheat and cassava as well as agricultural | byproducts such as straw and corn stalks (reference needed). | | Can be made from Algae | | We need nuclear power and a better battery for autos. | We need energy independence. | Mike (MK) | | One word SUGAR. If politicians really meant what they say they'd approve other sources such as industrial hemp. (it's a weed after all) Posted by Steve Ackman on July 15, 2008, 10:51 am Please log in for more thread options ["Followup-To:" header set to alt.energy.homepower.] NotMe, me@privacy.net wrote: > > One word SUGAR. > > If politicians really meant what they say they'd approve other sources such > as industrial hemp. (it's a weed after all) Hemp doesn't provide sugar. Rather, it provides a high grade cellulose easily substituted for petroleum in a LOT of industrial processes. As to hemp for fuel: Henry Ford produced 1000 gallons of methanol from each acre of hemp he grew. One might hope the massive hemp growing efforts during WWII would have added to the knowledge base, and we could do better than that now. Hemp seed oil is as suitable as any other VO for use in diesels, though at today's prices, quite uneconomical to burn all those valuable omega3 and omega6 fatty acids as fuel. Increase hemp seed availability, and who knows... -- ☯☯