Comments on: Ethanol Part 2: Corn http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2007/01/14/ethanol-part-2-corn/ The Alternative Consumer provides product reviews, eco news and green info to the next wave of smart consumers. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:03:48 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v= hourly 1 By: rd http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2007/01/14/ethanol-part-2-corn/comment-page-1/#comment-59 rd Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:36:19 +0000 http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2007/01/14/ethanol-part-2-corn/#comment-59 I'll check out the article. Thanks. rd I’ll check out the article. Thanks.
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]]> By: Mike in Brooklyn http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2007/01/14/ethanol-part-2-corn/comment-page-1/#comment-58 Mike in Brooklyn Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:33:16 +0000 http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2007/01/14/ethanol-part-2-corn/#comment-58 http://www.thestar.com/article/171058 Article on smaller, sensible ethanol. We'll get to it. Lots of smaller plants located in every county of the US, based on crops from that area. (Yes, I do include the Southwest) The DDG's from ethanol can be used as fertilizer or better still, grow diversified crops, not monocultures. The problem isn't ethanol, it's corporate agriculture. Well, it's corporate sensibility actually. Biodiesel is a wonderful lubricant. Its international implications, with the massive rainforest and crop destruction everyone attributes to ethanol production, is open to question. Diesel engines can be converted to ethanol. Corn ethanol will go the way of the Model T one day. See the attached article. http://www.thestar.com/article/171058

Article on smaller, sensible ethanol. We’ll get to it. Lots of smaller plants located in every county of the US, based on crops from that area. (Yes, I do include the Southwest) The DDG’s from ethanol can be used as fertilizer or better still, grow diversified crops, not monocultures. The problem isn’t ethanol, it’s corporate agriculture. Well, it’s corporate sensibility actually.

Biodiesel is a wonderful lubricant. Its international implications, with the massive rainforest and crop destruction everyone attributes to ethanol production, is open to question. Diesel engines can be converted to ethanol. Corn ethanol will go the way of the Model T one day. See the attached article.

]]> By: rd http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2007/01/14/ethanol-part-2-corn/comment-page-1/#comment-53 rd Mon, 15 Jan 2007 04:59:49 +0000 http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2007/01/14/ethanol-part-2-corn/#comment-53 I'm coming to the same conclusion. Thanks for stopping in. rd I’m coming to the same conclusion. Thanks for stopping in.
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]]> By: Al Vero http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2007/01/14/ethanol-part-2-corn/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Al Vero Sun, 14 Jan 2007 23:47:49 +0000 http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2007/01/14/ethanol-part-2-corn/#comment-52 The intelligent progression is to biodiesel. It makes little sense except to corn farmers to use ethanol in gasohol. It is a net loss of energy inputs that it is takes more gas and petroleum based fertilizers to manufacture than the savings in petroleum. Biodiesel that is the way. The intelligent progression is to biodiesel.
It makes little sense except to corn farmers to use ethanol in gasohol.
It is a net loss of energy inputs that it is takes more gas and petroleum based fertilizers to manufacture than the savings in petroleum.
Biodiesel that is the way.

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