"Thom Stewart" wrote in message
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Well; thank you Max,

The process in called Cellular Ethanol;

Close. It's "cellulosic ethanol."

An it is the process of using
the waste (What is now called Waste) biomass. The same size field can
out produce Corn 10 to 1 and the emission is reduced by 85% compared to
Ethanol from Corn is only about 25%. The Fermentation uses Gas rather
than Yeast and is getting cheaper every day but is still higher cost yet
than Crude but, as you say, it is competitive right now.

Max; Ethanol is the Chem of the week right now but there are 4 Alcohol
of high interest Methanol, Ethanol, Propanol and butanol. All capable of
replacing Fossil Fuels. Butanol is closer to gasoline than Ethanol

What's frightening is that Big Oil is investing heavily in ethanol, both in
obtaining government-granted rights to grow switchgrass on gov't land, plus
ethanol production facilities. Apparently they aren't going to lose their
market share quietly. I suppose it can be argued that no one "does it
better," but the way they've mishandled the Katrina-period pricing, I'm
worried that we'll never see reasonable prices at the pump again.

Max