Posted by ecineleuf on September 2, 2008, 1:02 pm
Jackie Helling
August 19, 2008
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution blog Opinion Talk has posted snippets
of an interview with Murray Campbell, CEO of First United Ethanol.
Campbell defended biofuels on Monday at an event at Atlanta’s Commerce
Club, entitled “Biofuels in Georgia: Fact, Fiction and Future.”
He talked about water usage and other common concerns about biofuels.
“Talk about water usage. … It takes 44 gallons to refine a gallon of
gasoline. It takes three to four gallons of water to refine a gallon
of ethanol, and 87 percent of the corn in this country is grown on dry
land. Grant you, we grow a lot of irrigated crops down in our area,
and one of the assets for our plant is the ability to grow irrigated
corn. But our yield is significantly higher than the national average
of corn grown dry.”
Take a look.
http://www.goodfuels.org/2008/08/ceo-of-first-united-ethanol-in-ajc/
Posted by Frank on September 2, 2008, 2:44 pm
ecineleuf wrote:
> Jackie Helling
> August 19, 2008
>
> The Atlanta Journal-Constitution blog Opinion Talk has posted snippets
> of an interview with Murray Campbell, CEO of First United Ethanol.
>
> Campbell defended biofuels on Monday at an event at Atlanta’s Commerce
> Club, entitled “Biofuels in Georgia: Fact, Fiction and Future.”
>
> He talked about water usage and other common concerns about biofuels.
>
> “Talk about water usage. … It takes 44 gallons to refine a gallon of
> gasoline. It takes three to four gallons of water to refine a gallon
> of ethanol, and 87 percent of the corn in this country is grown on dry
> land. Grant you, we grow a lot of irrigated crops down in our area,
> and one of the assets for our plant is the ability to grow irrigated
> corn. But our yield is significantly higher than the national average
> of corn grown dry.”
> Take a look.
> http://www.goodfuels.org/2008/08/ceo-of-first-united-ethanol-in-ajc/
Sounds nutty to me. It probably takes at least 10 gallons of water in
the fermentation process alone. Refining to me might be the distilling
step and that would depend on the heat capacity of the substance being
distilled and I would guess it is higher for ethanol.
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> August 19, 2008
>
> The Atlanta Journal-Constitution blog Opinion Talk has posted snippets
> of an interview with Murray Campbell, CEO of First United Ethanol.
>
> Campbell defended biofuels on Monday at an event at Atlanta’s Commerce
> Club, entitled “Biofuels in Georgia: Fact, Fiction and Future.”
>
> He talked about water usage and other common concerns about biofuels.
>
> “Talk about water usage. … It takes 44 gallons to refine a gallon of
> gasoline. It takes three to four gallons of water to refine a gallon
> of ethanol, and 87 percent of the corn in this country is grown on dry
> land. Grant you, we grow a lot of irrigated crops down in our area,
> and one of the assets for our plant is the ability to grow irrigated
> corn. But our yield is significantly higher than the national average
> of corn grown dry.”
> Take a look.
> http://www.goodfuels.org/2008/08/ceo-of-first-united-ethanol-in-ajc/