Ignore the planting and watering part. The energy required just to collect and transport those corn stalks to the factory in many cases is more than they yield in energy from the fuel produced. That's the big problem with the bio-fuel programs. Unless the factory is right at the source of the biomass the energy produced is less the energy spent producing the fuel.
US Invents Better Fuel than Gas from waste plant matter
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Ignore the planting and watering part. The energy required just to collect and transport those corn stalks to the factory in many cases is more than they yield in energy from the fuel produced. That's the big problem with the bio-fuel programs. Unless the factory is right at the source of the biomass the energy produced is less the energy spent producing the fuel.
And have you based this on the new Isobutanol estimates that we don't have yet somehow?
Based on the raw energy content of the waste matter. Regardless of what the derived fuel product is, it won't contain more energy than what the waste matter starts with. In fact it will contain a good deal less due to losses in processing.
Not my numbers. The people who do this stuff for a living already know it.
Not my numbers. The people who do this stuff for a living already know it.
