Robert Pritchett

VeraSun Energy and the Ethanol Debate

I would suggest that you take a look at all alternative energy options and not just focus on Ethanol production from corn kernels, which today apparently takes 1.5 gallons of oil to produce 1 gallon of Ethanol. Hardly Zero-sum. Cellulosic Ethanol makes more sense, as it extracts from the non-edible parts of plants and uses biodiversity (non-agnostic).

In our community there is Gen-X Energies (www. genxenergies.com) producing biofuels from chicken fat and is now totally "sustainable", because they are able to get methanol from an IC Chip plant as a byproduct that otherwise would have been thrown out and over at PESWiki (www.peswiki.com), we can see a page on Green Power, that is working on a pilot plant to produce "nano-diesel", which is really a dino-juice extractor from pelletized waste that can produce real across-the-board petroleum - not just diesel.

And then there are the continuous process Algae-to-Ethanol producers in the Southwest, such as Valcent (www.valcent.net/).

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