Alt fuels was Re: [AT] Gasoline $

[Don Bowen]

At 8/11/2005, you wrote:
>I don't buy the argument that it takes more energy to produce alcohol than
>it returns.  That is propaganda from the oil companies.  The only way you
>come up with that much energy is if you include the solar energy that it
>took to grow the corn.

http://www.transportation.anl.gov/pdfs/TA/58.pdf
According to figures on the above, with current technology the net energy 
gain is a bit less than 20 kBTU.  Near term new technologies described in 
the paper show a net gain as much as 75 kBTU.


With a yield of about 2.5 gallons per bushel, how many acres will it take 
to replace the current demand for gasoline?  At $.54 per gallon subsidy, 
how deep into the red will the government have to go?

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