From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Mon Jun 11 2001 - 03:05:06 MDT
On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Spike Jones wrote:
> Today's San Jose Merc ran an article that claims ethanol must be
> subsidized about 54 cents a gallon to compete with regualr gasoline.
> If this is correct {no indication that it is, BTW} then fuel is nearly
> as expensive as it can logically get, eh?
Ethanol and methanol are two different kind of animals. Ethanol typically
means biomass, methanol petrochemicals and/or biomass, via the synthesis
gas route.
Ethanol via biomass is a truly lousy fuel, unless Robert can engineer his
roof mat which photosynthesizes ethanol instead of sugar.
-- Eugen* Leitl
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