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a_plutonium@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Stephen Sprunk wrote:
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> > Many farms in the midwest are already diesel/gasoline free, using ethanol to
> > run the tractors and other equipment. And they're making money.
>
> Are you sure it is 100 % ethanol and not E85? or biodiesel?
Does it really matter very much ? The point is made.
> And can the ethanol distilleries by fitted so that their energy costs
> are all ethanol.
Whyever not ?
> Now that would be an experiment even I could believe in. Where a farm
> starts out the year with only ethanol fuel and the distillery uses only
> ethanol fuel and whether at the end there is a gain or loss in ethanol.
I've been pointing out this possibilty here for some time. Clearly there has to
be
an ethanol gain ( i.e. a product to sell at the end of the day ) or it wouldn't
be
worth doing it !
Graham
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