Posted by paul on January 31, 2016 at 23:23:25 from (66.44.132.180):
In Reply to: Re: How many acres posted by jimg.allentown on January 31, 2016 at 19:22:14:
Ethanol is clearly a success where ever corn is grown at negative basis.
One of the first plants was started by farmers pooling their money about 15 miles from me. (I'm not involved, I didn't invest at the time or since....) Its operating well, and providing fuel, octane booster to lower quality gasoline, feed, jobs, better air quality, and all that. The plant, as well as the 19 others in the state, expanded several times over and of course as the technology was learned has increased in efficiency greatly.
If we could get out from the govt controls studies show the best mix of ethanol is typically about 25% on most modern vehicles, that mix gives the best octane and flash point efficiencies of the mixed fuel. E25 would be the more efficient fuel.
We even export ethanol, sometimes to Brazil.
Ethanol works well we have had it in Minnesota longer than most any other state. If we can make it work in our hot humid summers and bitter cold winters it can work anywhere?
Now, if you build an ethanol plant in a corn-short area and try to ship in corn at high costs, yea that's pretty dumb. You need a good business plan, not a bunch of wide-eyed investors......
And I don't suppose ethanol will ever supply all our transportation fuel. That just isn't in the cards.
But 20-25% sure is a good goal and certainly doable.
Nothing is 100% perfect, but what part of ethanol could possibly be called a failure? That's nuts.
Ethanol has been around here since the 1990s, really old news, works well.
I had some big reservations about it when they started out (remember - I didn't invest in it......) and wondered if it would ever get beyond a fad. But I was wrong, time has shown that. Why would anyone be against it? I don't understand?
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