Hi Scott, That's an old study. New methods have been developed to make ethanol from corn and the original studies never considered that the waste from fermentation can still be utilized as animal feed. In fact, the waste product actually makes a better feed stock than the raw corn. And this double utilization makes corn competitive as a fuel. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/ethanol.html And when I tried to google "ethanol corn animal feed", to find that info, the link above was 10th on the page. All of the previous 9 links were scaremongering that the use of corn in ethanol was going to increase corn prices and make animal feed more expensive. Will sugar cane grow in the midwest where all the farmers are?
Happy Trails, Greg Potts 1973/74/77/79 Westfakia "Bob The Tomato www.pottsfamily.ca www.busesofthecorn.com
On 12-Jan-08, at 12:49 AM, Scott Daniel - Shazam wrote: > Corn ethanol is bad news from what I gather. Perhaps they'll > switch over > to sugar cane. |
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