Michael writes: > >does anyone know of a good source of reasonably >priced ethanol for making biodiesel? It doesn't need >to be completely anhydrous (95% would be okay, >I can use dessicants to remove the rest of the water), >but it can NOT be denatured with gasoline. It would be >okay to be denatured with methanol, but of course I'd >prefer it if it were possible to get ethanol that hasn't >been denatured at all.
In the US, that would always be taxed as beverage alcohol (I believe -- maybe there are some exceptions) and would be prohibitively expensive. Even denaturing only lowers the price by the tax -- still $5-$7 a gallon even in multi-drum quantities. It's the fuel-grade folks who really make huge quantities cheap (< $2 a gal) , and they all use gasoline as denaturant. What's your objection to that? By the way, only fuel-grade is typically grain-based, unless you especially buy (and pay extra for) so-called "grain neutral spirits". And this stuff is rarely denatured, so you pay the tax as well. Most solvent stuff (paint stores, Home Depot, laboratory supply places, etc.) is made from ethylene (from petroleum) and is probly worse (environmentally) than methanol. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> 4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now http://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
