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Ethanol?
"F.O.A.D." wrote in message ... On 4/27/13 4:45 PM, Eisboch wrote: "iBoaterer" wrote in message ... 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? === 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. --------------------------------------------- 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. --------------------------------- 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. |
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