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On 4/27/13 4:45 PM, Eisboch wrote:


"iBoaterer" wrote in message
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In article ,
says...

On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:17:54 -0400, iBoaterer
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Gee, who was it here that said that it takes more energy to make
ethanol
than it produces?


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I did, and it is true if you add in all of the agricultural energy
such as fertilizer production, etc.


It was true, not anymore.

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Well, halleluiah and praise be to the corn gods. Cheap perpetual
energy. Oh, and by the way, the science community better get busy
re-writing the laws of physics.



I posit that "perpetual" energy really isn't relevant. If you were an
early settler to this continent, and spent a day cutting down a tree and
sawing it into firewood, you had a source of energy for your cooking and
heating fires that would last a long, long time, and would certainly
provide more energy in terms of BTUs and other measurements than you
expended.