On 1/10/2008 6:13:29 PM, Lance A. Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote: > > Jim Sharkey wrote: > > > >>I'm sure some of you knew this, what with your big brains and all, > >>but I found it interesting: > >> > >>http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=grass-makes-better-ethanol-than-corn > >> > >>_Scientific American_ is saying grass as a source of ethanol has > >>the > >>potential to be vastly more efficient than corn. Pretty cool > >>stuff, > >>I think. > >> > > > > But still less efficient than sugarcane :-P > > Perhaps. The use of corn to produce ethanol is already driving the > cost > of corn higher, impacting food costs already[1]. I don't > think we want > to use corn _or_ sugarcane for producing ethanol in the long term.
The problem with corn is that it produces a lower energy ethanol. Sugarcane *is* much better in that regard. But why are you worried about sugarcane? We don't use it all that much in the US, even for making sugar. Last I heard, sugar beets was the big resource in that industry. (In the US that is.) As I understand the ethanol research, grass and cellulose are looking to become popular resources for ethanol with several useful byproducts as an added bonus. xponent Drastic Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
