> amdx wrote:

>>  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..

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

>>   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).

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

> Graham