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First recorded activity by BoatBanter: Feb 2013
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Ethanol?
On 4/27/13 5:08 PM, Eisboch wrote:
"F.O.A.D." wrote in message
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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
wrote:
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.
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The energy expended by the settler is not all the energy involved. It's
only that used in the harvesting of the tree.
iBoater previously claimed that it takes less than a gallon of fossil
fuel to produce a gallon of ethanol. He's now claiming that all the
energy consumed in the growing, harvesting and production of the corn
(or sugar) for a gallon of ethanol is less than the energy the gallon of
ethanol will produce as a fuel.
I say nonsense.
Oh, I won't argue that. It is nonsense.
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