[Gasification] biogas vehicle

[Harmon Seaver]

Max Kennedy wrote:
> I don't think Roger missed anything.  Corn silage as in the original post is the whole plant ground up.  The mash that results from fermentation, although an excellent animal feed, is not food for people. 

   ??? Neither is the corn. The vast majority of the corn grown in the
US goes to feed animals, not people. And the vast majority of what
doesn't go to feed animals goes for industrial purposes, like making
plastics, high-fructose corn syrup, etc.
   People can talk all they want to about meat production not being an
efficient way of producing food for people, but that's just totally
irrelevant, because like it or not, most people eat meat, not just in
the developed world, but rapidly increasingly so in the 3rd world as well.
    You can day-dream all you want about converting everyone to
vegetarianism, but it ain't going to happen anytime soon.
    I'm certainly not pushing corn for ethanol, as I said, there are
far, far better feedstocks for that. The best you can get with corn is
about 400 gallons of ethanol per acre, and that only with a whole lot of
chemical, fossil-fuel input. Plants like buffalo gourd will give you
twice that amount of ethanol, plus 100 gallons an acre of biodiesel per
acre from the seeds, and you only have to plant it once. Cattails will
give 1500 gallons per acre of ethanol with no fertilization, 2500
gallons per acre with organic fertilization, and you can use it to
totally purify sewage water at the same time, and only plant it once.








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