Re: PT 2 would like your input on alternative fuel

Posted by Gerald J. on July 06, 2006 at 08:36:01 from (67.0.102.199):

In Reply to: Re: PT 2 would like your input on alternative fuel posted by Pete7 on July 06, 2006 at 06:10:43:

The commercial ethanol plants are getting 2.9 gallons of ethanol per bushel of corn, plus they are selling the dried distiller's grain as cattle feed, and at least one is useing waste heat to warm greenhouses to grow tomatoes year round. Its hard to compete with those added economic products with the small scale still. The food value of the dried distiller's grain is nearly as high as the corn that went in, so its value is pretty good.

I believe they are now using molecular sieve technology to separate the last bit of water from the ethanol and that is far more effective than distillation and significantly more energy efficient than distillation.

Where the Berzerkly naysayers miss in their economic opinions of ethanol production is the use of techniques other than distillation and the use of side products like distiller's grain and heat.

The cost of ethanol production is considerably smaller today than the current commodity market price. There are many ethanol plants under construction or being planned and eventually they will catch up with the market demand and those high profits will disappear.

Gerald J.

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