nobody
7/18/2007 7:13:00 PM
Joe <mnb@fgh.com> wrote:
> the_blogologist wrote:
> > <anonymous@dizum.com> wrote:
> >
> >> There is a mad rush for U.S. farmers to grow more corn
> >> for ethanol as a fuel. However, according to an agricultural
> >> expert speaking on BNN, Canada's TV business news network,
> >> it takes more fossil fuel energy to produce ethanol than
> >> the resulting ethanol will provide.
> >
> > It used to be that way. It's improved. Today it costs 1 unit of fuel to
> > produce 1.2 of ethanol from corn. In brazil they use sugar cane which is
> > much more efficient, costing 1 unit of fuel to produce 8. Bush's ethanol
> > requirement is basically corporate welfare for corn growers.
> >
>
> How hard would it be for them to switch to sugar cane? Is the climate
> and soil suitable in corn growing regions?
>
> If I might ask, where did you get the 1 to 8 ratio of fuel in to fuel
> out? That would be worth taking a look at.
I got it from a discovery channel special:
44 min into this documentary, 46 min for the exact quote.
"Green: The New, Red, White and Blue"
The quote is "John Door" who backed amazon.com and google. He's also
into Brazil's bio-fuel which is highly successful. He said surgar cane
returns 8 times the fuel out for the amount in while corn returns 1.2
times.
I downloaded this documentary from alt.binaries.multimedia.documentaries
If your newserver has enough retention it might still be there. Decoded
to 1.98 gigs.