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iBoaterer[_3_]

May 1st 13 05:06 PM

Ethanol?

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On Wed, 1 May 2013 08:59:13 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

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On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:36:21 -0400, iBoaterer
wrote:

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Those articles talking about feeding the sludge to animals sounds
agricultural to me. Two of the 3 were talking about the dream of
cellulose conversion, which they have not actually been able to do and
the last is just a puff piece from a lobbying organization and it is
still talking about better crop yields (agricultural) and biomass.

If this is such a great process, why does the government have to
subsidize every gallon by 60-70 cents?

Haven't been able to do????? Really?? Come on now, you used to be
reasonable.

They do not have ONE biomass ethanol plant in the US operating
successfully on a commercial scale.

Right so that means it will never work, got it. It's that damned new
technology....

If it worked, they would be doing it. This is not that new. Most of
this biomass research started 35 years ago and they still can't make
it work on any industrial scale in spite of billions of tax dollars
being pumped into it.

Maybe it will work if gasoline gets up to $10 a gallon.

Gee you sound like those who were against the motorcar. And those
farmers who said that the tractor could NEVER take the place of a
workhorse. There were probably cavemen who thought that damned new thing
called fire would never work!

iBoaterer[_3_]

May 1st 13 07:30 PM

Ethanol?

In article ,
says...

On Wed, 1 May 2013 12:06:57 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

In article ,
says...

Maybe it will work if gasoline gets up to $10 a gallon.

Gee you sound like those who were against the motorcar. And those
farmers who said that the tractor could NEVER take the place of a
workhorse. There were probably cavemen who thought that damned new thing
called fire would never work!

I agree it "works" it is just too expensive to make a go of it.

Shale oil was too expensive to compete in a 99 cent a gallon gasoline
market too but once we got it over $3 shale oil looks good to us (or
at least the Canadians who are developing it)

Typically, new technology becomes lower in price as time and ingenuity
take their course.

JustWaitAFrekinMinute

May 1st 13 09:00 PM

Ethanol?

On 5/1/2013 2:17 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 1 May 2013 12:06:57 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

In article ,
says...

Maybe it will work if gasoline gets up to $10 a gallon.

Gee you sound like those who were against the motorcar. And those
farmers who said that the tractor could NEVER take the place of a
workhorse. There were probably cavemen who thought that damned new thing
called fire would never work!

I agree it "works" it is just too expensive to make a go of it.

Shale oil was too expensive to compete in a 99 cent a gallon gasoline
market too but once we got it over $3 shale oil looks good to us (or
at least the Canadians who are developing it)

6 years ago the excuse was "it will take 6-10 years to get the oil
out...".. Gas was half what it is now, I wish we had just gone ahead,
just think where we would be now?

iBoaterer[_3_]

May 1st 13 10:02 PM

Ethanol?

In article ,
says...

On Wed, 1 May 2013 12:04:56 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

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I don't like any subsidies but I also understand the difference
between the pennies a galloon the oil companies get and the 60-70
cents ethanol gets.

Please cite those numbers.

This guy has ethanol at $1.45 a gallon.
http://zfacts.com/p/63.html

The real problem with getting a good number is because corn itself has
the highest subsidy of any farm product in the US.

Here is an environmental group trashing ethanol
http://www.ewg.org/agmag/2013/02/cor...nd-environment

That's not even close to what I asked for!

iBoaterer[_3_]

May 1st 13 10:04 PM

Ethanol?

In article ,
says...

On Wed, 1 May 2013 14:30:04 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

In article ,
says...

On Wed, 1 May 2013 12:06:57 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

In article ,
says...

Maybe it will work if gasoline gets up to $10 a gallon.

Gee you sound like those who were against the motorcar. And those
farmers who said that the tractor could NEVER take the place of a
workhorse. There were probably cavemen who thought that damned new thing
called fire would never work!

I agree it "works" it is just too expensive to make a go of it.

Shale oil was too expensive to compete in a 99 cent a gallon gasoline
market too but once we got it over $3 shale oil looks good to us (or
at least the Canadians who are developing it)

Typically, new technology becomes lower in price as time and ingenuity
take their course.

Biomass is not new technology. The government has been pouring money
into it for 40 years.

Oh, man, you've watched way too much FOX. I'd guess that there's no new
technology in airplanes because they've been around since the Wright
Brothers, eh?

iBoaterer[_3_]

May 1st 13 10:04 PM

Ethanol?

In article ,
says...

On 5/1/2013 2:17 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 1 May 2013 12:06:57 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

In article ,
says...

Maybe it will work if gasoline gets up to $10 a gallon.

Gee you sound like those who were against the motorcar. And those
farmers who said that the tractor could NEVER take the place of a
workhorse. There were probably cavemen who thought that damned new thing
called fire would never work!

I agree it "works" it is just too expensive to make a go of it.

Shale oil was too expensive to compete in a 99 cent a gallon gasoline
market too but once we got it over $3 shale oil looks good to us (or
at least the Canadians who are developing it)

6 years ago the excuse was "it will take 6-10 years to get the oil
out...".. Gas was half what it is now, I wish we had just gone ahead,
just think where we would be now?

Bull****.

[email protected]

May 2nd 13 01:45 AM

Ethanol?

On Wednesday, May 1, 2013 7:00:34 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Wed, 1 May 2013 17:04:15 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

In article ,

says...

Typically, new technology becomes lower in price as time and ingenuity

take their course.

Biomass is not new technology. The government has been pouring money

into it for 40 years.

Oh, man, you've watched way too much FOX. I'd guess that there's no new

technology in airplanes because they've been around since the Wright

Brothers, eh?

40 years after the Wright brothers first flew (dec 1943), commercial

aviation was an established industry. There were dozens of companies

making money with airplanes. Airlines were flying around ther world.

The Germans were flying jet fighters and so were the Brits

40 years after the energy crisis prompted government money to be spent

on biomass, we still do not have any real functioning plants and there

are not really any break through developments, only dreams.

Check and Mate.

iBoaterer[_3_]

May 2nd 13 01:56 PM

Ethanol?

In article ,
says...

On Wed, 1 May 2013 17:04:15 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

In article ,
says...

Typically, new technology becomes lower in price as time and ingenuity
take their course.

Biomass is not new technology. The government has been pouring money
into it for 40 years.

Oh, man, you've watched way too much FOX. I'd guess that there's no new
technology in airplanes because they've been around since the Wright
Brothers, eh?

40 years after the Wright brothers first flew (dec 1943), commercial
aviation was an established industry. There were dozens of companies
making money with airplanes. Airlines were flying around ther world.
The Germans were flying jet fighters and so were the Brits
40 years after the energy crisis prompted government money to be spent
on biomass, we still do not have any real functioning plants and there
are not really any break through developments, only dreams.

So you DO agree that there is a tangible time for technology to develop.
But to assert that any and all technology should follow the same exact
time frame as aviation technology did (and by the way it's STILL
evolving) is just silly.

iBoaterer[_3_]

May 2nd 13 01:59 PM

Ethanol?

In article ,
says...

On Wednesday, May 1, 2013 7:00:34 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Wed, 1 May 2013 17:04:15 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

In article ,

says...

Typically, new technology becomes lower in price as time and ingenuity

take their course.

Biomass is not new technology. The government has been pouring money

into it for 40 years.

Oh, man, you've watched way too much FOX. I'd guess that there's no new

technology in airplanes because they've been around since the Wright

Brothers, eh?

40 years after the Wright brothers first flew (dec 1943), commercial

aviation was an established industry. There were dozens of companies

making money with airplanes. Airlines were flying around ther world.

The Germans were flying jet fighters and so were the Brits

40 years after the energy crisis prompted government money to be spent

on biomass, we still do not have any real functioning plants and there

are not really any break through developments, only dreams.

Check and Mate.

Uh, no, it's a very silly argument actually. To claim that all
technology should take the same timeline is foolish at best. He knows
that as well, and is grasping at straws.

iBoaterer[_3_]

May 2nd 13 06:15 PM

Ethanol?

In article ,
says...

On Thu, 2 May 2013 08:56:11 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

In article ,
says...

Oh, man, you've watched way too much FOX. I'd guess that there's no new
technology in airplanes because they've been around since the Wright
Brothers, eh?

40 years after the Wright brothers first flew (dec 1943), commercial
aviation was an established industry. There were dozens of companies
making money with airplanes. Airlines were flying around ther world.
The Germans were flying jet fighters and so were the Brits
40 years after the energy crisis prompted government money to be spent
on biomass, we still do not have any real functioning plants and there
are not really any break through developments, only dreams.

So you DO agree that there is a tangible time for technology to develop.
But to assert that any and all technology should follow the same exact
time frame as aviation technology did (and by the way it's STILL
evolving) is just silly.

You are the one who brought up the Wright brothers but it is not the
first silly thing you have said.

*I* didn't say that technology doesn't change, YOU did by comparison.

The problem with these cellulose schemes is simply the number of
processes necessary to get grass turned into a form of energy a car
can use and the meager amount of energy the grass has in the first
place.
You can hate oil if you want but you can't deny that it has an energy
density many times that of just about any other source of energy that
doesn't involve nuclear fission. (or the holy grail, fusion)
DoE says "trash" biomass only yields a theoretical 56 gallons of
gasoline per ton of dried material and nobody has even approached that
theoretical number. OTOH you might get 124 gallons of gas from a ton
of corn, again assuming 100% efficiency and that is not happening..

So we should abandon all hope and go back to horse and buggy I guess? Or
do you want to go back further, say before fire?

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