OT. Louisiana Leads the way

  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)

 

 

amdx wrote:


Damn right. Corn is a relatively poor feedstock for bio-fuel production.. Not
maybe useless but far from ideal.



And currently being developed in the UK using sugar beet as feedstock.

Graham

 

 I wonder if there is any extra energy input to produce butanol instead of
ethanol? I t seems silly to make ethanol when butanol has all these
advantages.
                   Mike

 

amdx wrote:


You'll need to ask Du Pont.

Graham

 

http://www.butanol.com/
                                  Mike