Comments on: Governors Want To Expand Ethanol Limitations

By: Brad Hart

Brad Hart — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:56:05 +0000

Norcal switch grass is a viable alternative. I blogged about it not so long back.

More importantly though ethanol is only as viable as we want to make it. If we don’t build infrastructure and processing plants for it, then it will always be expensive. The only way to bring the cost down is use crops which can be efficiently converted to ethanol and use local processors for local distribution. It doesn’t take a huge processor to produce it either. I have a friend who is in the process of phasing out his families farm in south east Indiana and the production facility they are building will cost less than $400k and be more than sufficient for the 25k acres of switch grass they hope to have grown locally over the next ten years.

For those that don’t know studies show switch grass can provide between 1000 and 1500 gallons of ethanol per acre with most test showing about 1150 gallons per acre over several years.

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By: Norcal

Norcal — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:56:16 +0000

First I’ve heard of Switchgrass as an option. Kind of takes the wind out of the sales of people using increased food prices as a deterrent for using ethanol (competition for the corn)

30% drop in efficiency is still a problem though, especially until ethanol prices take a major drop.

By: HID Conversion

HID Conversion — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:09:09 +0000

Ethanol will not solve our oil crisis, it will only create more problems. The only way we're going to get gas back down to a decent price will be expanding options EVERYWHERE and utilizing all forms of energy (not just oil). This will be a HUGE topic in the US elections in November. HID Conversions last blog post..Headlamp Maintenance

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A1-Webmarks - User MattK — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:24:51 +0000

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