Re: OT of an OT: Ethanol
What your creating is alcohol. There is a huge myth that you need thousands of acres of land to make one gallon of alcohol fuel. That is simply untrue. If you take the combined US gross production of alcohol beverage in the US compared to the land used to make these products, you will find that per gallon of alcohol produced, less than 1/1000 of an acre of land is used.
Sugar is the primary ingrediant to making fuel. Keep that in mind. Corn fuel is just a very very very small part of the overall products that can be grown to make fuel. Sugar Beats take up very little space compared to the amount of sugar they make. Converting that sugar into fuel still yeilds a very healthy amount something on the order of 80%. Now this is all from memory mind you so my numbers could be off, but the truth is, alcohol fuel is more pratical than we have been led to believe.
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