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James Robinson > wrote in
. 97.142: > Turby > wrote: > >> Alan Browne > wrote: >> >>> Illinois gallons of E85 per year: 685,000,000 Gal (US) >> >>> Illinois "offset" days per US year 8.88 days of mideast oil saved >>> by Illinois alone. Scale that up 10X and ... >> >> You're up to 88 days. Not enough. But what crops will you sacrifice >> to produce that much ethanol? > > And I suspect in that calculation they didn't include the energy > needed to grow and harvest the crops (fertilizer, plowing, etc.) or > distill the ethanol. That energy has to come from somewhere, likely > increased use of coal. > It also takes a considerable amount of water,which is becoming in short supply in some states.Then there's soil loss,and fertilizer runoff. (= pollution) -- Jim Yanik jyanik at kua.net |
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Jim Yanik wrote: > James Robinson > wrote in > . 97.142: > > > And I suspect in that calculation they didn't include the energy > > needed to grow and harvest the crops (fertilizer, plowing, etc.) or > > distill the ethanol. That energy has to come from somewhere, likely > > increased use of coal. Or use the 'waste' product from the mashed corn to fuel the distillery ? > It also takes a considerable amount of water,which is becoming in short > supply in some states.Then there's soil loss,and fertilizer runoff. > (= pollution) And this differs from any other form of agriculture exactly how ? Graham |
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