[Gasification] biogas vehicle

[Jeff Davis]

Corn does have some advantages; You can plant other crops with corn like
beans and squash? So you can triple the out put. And it stores well.
Gasify the stocks to run the still. Harmon, we need to get Roger up to
speed on ethanol.

Jeff



Harmon wrote:
>    There is a very, very serious and major error in this calculation.
> When you make the feedstock into ethanol, you have just as much food
> left, and, in fact, much higher quality, much more digestible food left
> over, in the form of the spent mash. So you are producing both food and
> fuel.
>    When you use the same feedstock to make methane, you might get more
> fuel, but you get no food at all. And the fuel you get is highly
> inferior to ethanol as a vehicle fuel simple because it requires much
> greater modification of the vehicle and it is impossible to carry enough
> methane to go very far.
>    Plus, of course, the fact that corn is a horrible feedstock for
> ethanol or methane, you can find a great many feedstocks that will give
> you two, three, even four times as much ethanol as corn, and that can be
> grown in sustainable, permaculture fashion -- plant once, never again,
> no fertilizer or herbicides needed.
>    Building smaller neighborhood or farm-scale ethanol plants as the
> basis for permaculture operations is the way of the future. Digesters
> making methane can and should be a part of that operation, especially
> for the manure from the livestock you feed the spent mash to, and also
> feed with the light stillage drained from the mash after distillation.
>
>
> --
> Harmon Seaver


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Jeff Davis

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