Ken -- when accusing others of writing gibberish it is good to avoid it
yourself. *Ethanol* is what is produced from grain, and sugarcane.
*Methanol* is an alcohol produced through destructive distillation --
usually of coal or wood or garbage.
Ken Hanly wrote:
>
> Well really....I thought that the price of natural gas is skyrocketing and
> supplies are limited. The stuff about methanol is complete gibberish...Do
> these people have a clue what they are taling about. Shit, methanol is
> grown now....There is a plant 30 miles from me at Minnedosa and another
> owned by an aboriginal band in Saskatchewan.. Of course it is not literally
> grown but grain is fermented to produce ethanol and this is added to
> gasoline. I have no idea what genetic engineering might contribute except to
> produce grain that gave higher methanol content.
> Given the inputs necessary to grow the grain some environmentalists have
> argued that the process wastes energy although others argue for it since it
> burns cleaner..
> Many ethanol plants us wheat as the two I mentioned, although some use corn.
> There is no genetically engineered wheat licensed as yet, although there is
> some corn. Ethanol is sometimes also manufactured from waste forestry
> products.
> It is strange that there is no mention of geothermal power. Even in the
> north here it is gaining in popularity and the electricity involved to
> circulate the water under pressure is about 1/3 or so of that of electric
> heat. What of wind power..?
> Cheers, Ken Hanly
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> > via micro-turbines, internal combustion engines and fuel cells. There will
> > be an increased used of natural gas because it's clean, cheap and
> available.
> >
> . One
> > example is the conversion of natural gas to diesel fuel for
> transportation.
> > "Gas to liquids technology offers an exciting, economically attractive
> > opportunity to convert natural gas from remote locations-which otherwise
> > would be wasted-into easily transported and inherently clean fuel," said
> > Denny Stephens, Senior Research Scientist for Battelle's Energy Products.
> >
> > 8. Energy Farms: The use of bio-engineered crops for fuels will be hurried
> > along by the genetic revolution that permits cultivation of crops to
> produce
> > fuels such as ethanol. "We will grow gasoline, so to speak, to lessen our
> > dependence on imported oil," Millett said. "With advances in DNA
> > engineering, we will be able to grow energy as well as food crops."
> >
