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[Richard Fink Sr]

That sounds ok. In one of the other posts was one where they tore 
down a beet factory to put in a ethanol plant. Must not have been a 
sugar beet plant as sugar beets can be processed to fuel 8-)
R Fink

At 08:52 PM 2/22/2008 -0600, you wrote:

>On Friday 22 February 2008 09:14:46 Richard Fink Sr wrote:
>
> > is in the high millions to build and really out in the country. From
> > what little i have read on this stuff it can't be piped must be
> > hauled in special trailers. Don't make much sense to me unless they
> > build a oil  processing plant near it.
>
>That is a half truth - it cannot be shipped in multi-use pipes.   It ships
>just fine in a dedicated pipe, but they only build dedicated pipes when they
>have a contract to ship something in that pipe for 20 years.   Of course all
>the single use pipelines in the country are busying shipping whatever in that
>pipe.   The multi-use pipes could find room to ship all the ethanol you would
>want, but you can't put ethanol in them.
>
>The pipeline companies are considering building an ethanol pipe from IL to
>someplace on the east coast, but they want to make sure the cost will be paid
>off in the long run.
>
>Personally I'm watching a lot of alternative fuels.  I keep hoping the algae
>oil market takes off - they could take unused desert and grown enough fuel
>for the US at $1.50/gallon.   However they have problems to solve yet.  (How
>do you grow a water based plant in the desert?   There are answers - they
>have ideas but it will take time to see if they work)
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