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From: "Al Gietzen" <ALVentures@cox.net>
To: "'Rotary motors in aircraft'" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:25:44 -0800
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I'm not Charlie but in my opinion, corn is one of the worst due to
competition w/ food consumers.=20
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I'm not Charlie either, but in my opinion corn is the worst because it =
is a
no-gainer - meaning it takes as much energy (+- depending on data =
source) to
produce the corn and make the ethanol as you get back from the ethanol.  =
And
burning ethanol still puts CO2 into the atmosphere.  If it weren't for =
the
heavy lobbying (read campaign contributions and other perks for =
politicians)
by the major grain companies (ADM, Cargil, etc.) over the past decade or
more; who are now making big bucks producing the stuff from corn with
government subsidies - there would not be a corn/ethanol program in this
country.

Making ethanol from sugar cane, as they do in Brazil, makes some sense.
They are achieving energy out/energy in of greater than 8 : 1 in the =
newer
plants.

Al G