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More options Jul 6 2008, 2:36 am

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From: Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelati...@hotmail.com>

Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:36:15 +0100

Local: Sun, Jul 6 2008 2:36 am

Subject: Re: OT. Louisiana Leads the way

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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

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