Re: HFCS and cane sugar


"Omelet" <omp_omelet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

Wrong.

Grow an acre of corn.
Use the corn for food.
Use the corn STALKS for making fuel.


Wrong.

If you use the corn for food instead of fuel, you need to plant double the
land. You still need a given amount of bio mass to make a given amount of
fuel. If the land is not available, you still run intot he same
supply/demand issures.



Double duty for the land.

And double l he land needed.


Corn stalks are usually burned...

1 acre of wheat.
Wheat goes for food,
Wheat straw for fuel.

See above.


It is possible the farmers or the ethanol people have never thought of what
you suggest. My guess, though, is that they are using the most economical
methods available.
--
Ed
http://pages.cthome.net/edhome/


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