Re: Open Your Corn Holes

2007-03-31 Thread Gruss Gott
> Gel wrote: > I think you should use Sugar Cane. The Caribbean can provide a near > endless supply :) > Naw. With global warming and the ice sheets melting at 100x the previously thought rate, there won't be too many islands left. And the heat and huricaines will wipe out most of the land that'

Re: Open Your Corn Holes

2007-03-31 Thread Vivec
I think you should use Sugar Cane. The Caribbean can provide a near endless supply :) On 3/30/07, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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

Re: Open Your Corn Holes

2007-03-30 Thread Gruss Gott
> Jim wrote: > 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. > http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN2830990020070328 ~| ColdFusion MX

Re: Open Your Corn Holes

2007-03-30 Thread Gruss Gott
> RoMunn wrote: > Except that the price of tortillas has doubled in Mexico and is only going > to get worse. It's a transition. Think of all the prices that are linked to oil: damn near everything. All Iran has to do is kidnap a few Brits and every American is paying a $10/wk tax. ~

Re: Open Your Corn Holes

2007-03-30 Thread Robert Munn
Except that the price of tortillas has doubled in Mexico and is only going to get worse. The average Mexian family lives on tortillas as their staple food. You think immigration is a problem now? Just wait until we're burning all of their food in our gas tanks. Bad idea. On 3/28/07, Gruss wrote: >

RE: Open Your Corn Holes

2007-03-30 Thread Jim Davis
-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

Re: Open Your Corn Holes

2007-03-30 Thread Gruss Gott
> 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

Re: Open Your Corn Holes

2007-03-30 Thread Dinner
What about Mary Jane? Was it just hippy propaganda that it could be used as a fuel? "It's the oil companies, man, that are keeping it against the law" Heh. Loved that one *sigh* We are a silly people, Americans... ~| Col

RE: Open Your Corn Holes

2007-03-28 Thread Jim Davis
> -Original Message- > From: Greg Morphis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 8:36 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Open Your Corn Holes > > Can't we get ethanol from other things too, sugar cane? and can't we > turn the lef

Re: Open Your Corn Holes

2007-03-28 Thread Greg Morphis
Can't we get ethanol from other things too, sugar cane? and can't we turn the left over corn product like the stalk into ethanol? I seem to remember reading something on that.. On 3/28/07, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By which I mean, of course, your gas tank. > > Ethanol is very intere