Ethanol from food grade stock might be short term and might be diadvantageous for other reasons, but there is a movement afoot to produce it from waste biomass, namely municipal solid waste. There's at least one pilot plant operating now in a southern city. forget where. Joe Fulton --- On Tue, 9/9/08, Archimedes <Freedom@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Archimedes <Freedom@xxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: [Amc-list] The Pickens Plan (not) > To: amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 1:04 PM > >ethanol from starch is -very- short term, for all the > negative reasons > >you cite, plus it's a very inefficient use of the > plant. the only > >thing it has going for it is 'off-the-shelf' > technology. cellulosic > >ethanol is more efficient and could use many plants on > sub-prime > >arable land, but it still isn't a good fuel > strategy. ://splatter.wps.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/amc-list _______________________________________________ Amc-list mailing list Amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://splatter.wps.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/amc-list