Green Fuel: Ethanol and Bio Diesel from Corn and Biomass

Bio fuels made from high-diversity mixtures of prairie plants can reduce global warming by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Even when grown on infertile soils, they can provide a substantial portion of global energy needs, and leave fertile land for food production. Findings published in the Dec. 8, 2006, issue of the journal Science

Commercializing biomass-to-ethanol technology would also have international political ramifications, according to Datta. Producing 2.4 million barrels of ethanol per day would "be a $40 billion per year transfer of wealth from the Middle East to our farmers,"
(5) Source: USA Today Ethanol Plants See Growth Bloom
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This is the Green Light to Go Green

One acre of corn can produce 300 gal. of ethanol per growing season. Ethanol is a plant-based alcohol fuel that's seen as a way to lessen U.S. dependence on foreign oil. It is no secret that Ethanol plants are seeing a growth of undeniable proportions. The world's growing thirst for ethanol is leading to a boom in plant construction even far from the Corn Belt, which has been home to most production.

About half the new construction began in the year since President Bush signed an energy bill that encourages greater use of ethanol as an ecologically sound fuel additive. Current producers are at full speed.

There is a definite ecological benefit. Engine wear is also markedly cut since methane, being dry, cannot dilute nor contaminate motor oil in the way that gasoline does and sparkplugs last much longer. Spark plugs taken out of cars after five years on Methane have been as clean as the day they were put them in, running cleaner, smoother and with more power on Methane.

"It's a little bit of a dot-com atmosphere," says John Skelley, president of Arizona Grain, an equity partner in a new ethanol plant being built outside Phoenix. Thirty-three ethanol plants are under construction, and another eight of the 95 plants in operation are being expanded, the Renewable Fuels Association reports. The 16 plants operated by Broin Cos. of Sioux Falls, S.D., are at capacity. (5)
(5) Source: USA Today Ethanol Plants See Growth Bloom
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Green Fuel: Ethanol and Bio Diesel from Corn and Biomass

Bio fuels made from high-diversity mixtures of prairie plants can reduce global warming by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Even when grown on infertile soils, they can provide a substantial portion of global energy needs, and leave fertile land for food production.

Findings published in the Dec. 8, 2006, issue of the journal Science. Biomass could be converted into ethanol in commercial quantities at a cost equivalent to $25 per barrel of crude oil, or roughly half the current price of imported oil, according to E. Kyle Datta, co-author of Winning the Oil Endgame and managing director of research and consulting at the Rocky Mountain Institute, an energy policy group. Datta said farmers who shift from corn to switchgrass could increase their per-acre profit from about $350 to between $400 and $600.

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Besides the energy bill, ethanol makers are getting a boost from Detroit, where automakers are promoting vehicles that can burn E85, a blend of 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline. The more common gasohol is 10% ethanol. The ethanol supply will more than double in the next decade, from 4 billion gallons produced last year to 9.8 billion by 2015, estimates a new report by John Urbanchuk of consulting firm LECG.