-----Original Message----- > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 10:07 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Open Your Corn Holes > > > Jim wrote: > > My understanding is that Sugar Cane (which is the primary Ethanol > crop used > > in Brazil) is vastly superior to corn - the more sugar the better the > fuel. > > Unfortunately the U.S. just doesn't provide a very good environment > for > > Sugar Cane (although I think that we may be able to do sugar beets > pretty > > well). > > It's the main crop in the northern midwest yet I've never heard boo > about using sugar beets for fuel. There are hundreds of square miles > of sugar beets. Maybe 1000s.
Sugar Beets are the primary source of French ethanol and they've apparently had good success with them. I'm not sure what's going on - everything I've read show that Sugar Beets yields more than double corn and more than 30% more than Sugar Cane (used primarily by Brazil) per acre farmed. But Corn seems to produce the most fuel per ton of stock. It seems like there's a lot of controversy about the best crop to use. Of course if we ever get those bacteria working (which will convert corn stalks and cobs to sugars) then we'll be set. The corn itself could still be used as feedstock and food while the rest becomes fuel. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:231703 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
