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Study Shows Ethanol Energy Efficiency Is Growing

Don't forget algea - a pond of algea produces much more (like 10-20x) than acres of flooded CRP subsidized land.

Study Shows Ethanol Energy Efficiency Is Growing

michael d - you're mi kind o guy - you're out-of-your-mind processing is no worse than what we're currently doing. What in the world are they smoking in DC and from Houston to Detroit? For years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Study Shows Ethanol Energy Efficiency Is Growing

CLH - you need to go to school. 1.5 is still 50% greater than 1.0. AND from exploring, drilling, processing, transporting oil, much energy is used - and to do what. BURN IT. Stupid!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ethanol Stocks: The Good News and the Bad

Gee gollies - I wonder how corrosive home grown biodiesel would be.......................

Ethanol: Our Answer to Reducing U.S. Dependence on Foreign Oil

Don't live, cause you're going to die!

Ethanol: Our Answer to Reducing U.S. Dependence on Foreign Oil

Tim - if we burn (consume) 140 million gallons of gasoline each year (your number), where's the 21 million barrels/d of crude going??

If your number is correct at 140 million gallons/yr, and we use my biofuel injected burner with waste heat recovery capturing 90% of the energy and making it useful, then we need only 50 million gallons of biofuel per year.

You say POET is already producing 1000 million (that's 1 billion) gallons of ethanol a year (your number) - where's all of it going? Some of your numbers are not adding up.

However, whichever you arrive at, I only need 1/3 as many gallons with my no-moving-parts/no-tra... biofuel-injected-burner with waste heat-to-electric devices, an electric motor and a grass tank with fueling stations where they are today. Goodbye drillers and diggers. Come-on growers.

Ethanol: Our Answer to Reducing U.S. Dependence on Foreign Oil

What? Jack34? Thot it was user246123. Above point is yours re. ALGAE!

Ethanol: Our Answer to Reducing U.S. Dependence on Foreign Oil

user246162: Amen!

Algae is a good grow method.

So call it a GROW TANK instead of a GRASS TANK.

Ethanol: Our Answer to Reducing U.S. Dependence on Foreign Oil

You want to see where billions of your tax dollars go? Payments to all kinds of farmers to do NOTHING!!

farm.ewg.org/farm/dp_a...

Ethanol: Our Answer to Reducing U.S. Dependence on Foreign Oil

Lies, lies, lies; and misconceptions galore.

Regardless of the fuel, the ICE is only 30% efficient. We throw away 70% of the energy. Only 5 Quads of useful energy come from the 40 Quads of crude (5 Quads go to PLASTICS, ETC.; THAT MEANS ONLY 1/7 OR <15% IS REALLY USEFUL).

So the answer is the burner* with waste heat recovery* that captures 90% of the energy* and makes it useful energy (as electricity*).

Immediately, then, we've reduced our consumption to 7 mb/d from 21 mb/d of fuel. How's that for reducing crude (import and local)?

Now that 1.5 mb/d biofuel looks pretty significant, doesn't it. And if we were to take the rest of the dryland farming community that gets paid to do NOTHING, and we put celulosic switchgrass, et.al., and canola where possible, etc., we can reach the 7 mb/d a lot easier than going for 21 mb/d which the roadblockers use as negatives, lies, etc.

*So here we go again: A biofuel injected burner encapsulated with solid-state waste heat direct conversion to electricity devices powering a ChorusMotor and the only on-board energy storage device is the GRASS TANK; unlimited range; power of the Tesla; refuel at existing service stations with whatever % of biodiesel to ethanol desired. No drill, drill, drill (Houston) and no ICE, transmission (Detroit) and no capacitor, motive power battery, flywheel, etc (Storage).