Helo Bob
Biodiesel can be made an intergrated way to produce defated
soyabens for beef meat substuite and the oil can be directly or via
transesterication to produce Biodiesel.As peanut , soybeans as
leguminas , they can surely improve the sutainable enegy and food
production.Now days we rae using soyproteins for animal
feed.Sustainable small scale farming and small scale industries are
social technology where as big mechanised farming and large scale
industries prefer ethanol as apposed to smaller .Integrating small
and big can be also done by very good goverment to make sustianble
devleopments .Surely Biodiesel can win over etanol production from
ecological and economic point of view.
sd
Panniselvam
On 7/8/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 18:14:53 EDT
Subject: Ethanol from corn vs Biodiesel from soy,etc.
I have read various estimates about the net fuel gain from the production of
ethanol from corn vs the production of biodiesel from soy. (I'm aware that
ethanol and biodiesel can be produced from other sources as well, but corn
and soy seem to be dominate in the US.) While the estimates vary, I would
say that consistently the estimates for soy biodiesel are considerably more
favorable than for corn ethanol. I'm poorly informed on the economics of
farming, but it would seem that farmers/ag corporations would see a greater
profit potential in biodiesel, and that that would be good for the public at
large as well.
Does anyone have any thoughts/information on why farmers wouldn't switch
from corn to soy for the biofuel market? Is it a matter of market, in the
sense that there's more demand for the ethanol? Of the infrastructure cost
of switching? Or?
I apologize if there is information on this topic in the archives and that I
was too inept to find it, and I apologize if my questions are naive. It
seems to me that biofuels will play a critical role in the national
security, economy, environment, and human welfare in many countries and I'm
trying to educate myself on the issues.
Bob
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