Re: [Amc-list] The Pickens Plan (not)

[Joe Fulton <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.
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