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Don Stauffer wrote: > > Lucila wrote: > > > > There was a small scale distillation tower built by the crew at the Mother > > Earth News magazine back when it was a real magazine in the '70's. They got > > all the heat they needed for the distillation process by burning the dry > > corn cobs. I don't remember if they used organic fertilizer, i.e. manure, > > or not. Seems to me that this could be done on a larger scale. Of course, > > you can't get away from the energy required to harvest, transport, grind and > > shell the corn. And yes, the leftover mash was found to be a good animal > > feed. I've got that issue down in the basement somewhere, and might dig it > > out. > > > > Garrett Fulton > > > > > > I wonder how many grams of CO2 are given off per thousand BTU in burning > corn cobs. We need to come up with a way to make biofuels that not only > is cost effective, it needs to be environment friendly, and CO2 is not > friendly. You do realize that almost all the carbon that is in a corn cob was originally tied up in CO2 in the atmosphere, so at worst, the CO2 you create when you burn a corn cob is just returning the same amount of CO2 to the atmosphere? And CO2 is certainly friendly, at least if you are a plant. Ed |
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