RE: Corn? We don't need no stinking corn!

[Paul Lennemann <pjlenn@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have heard there is an ethanol plant somewhere in central Nebraska 
producing ethanol w/ algae.  I like it!  
My new Chrysler mini van is an E-85 vehicle, my first.  So I have done a 
little calculating.  In Iowa and Nebraska we have a 10% ethanol blend 
(89 octane) which I always use because it is the cheapest, usually by @ 
10 cents.  It's cheaper because state government subsidizes it.  With 
E-10 I get 22 mpg.  At todays price ($3.67) that comes to @ 16.7 
cents/mile.  I get 18 mpg with E-85 (105 octane).  Today I paid $2.77 
for it.  That comes to @15.4 cents/mile.  The break even point is @ 
$1.20/gal difference.  And I buy it at a gas station operated by a 
farmers co-operative so my money's not going to the oil companies!  I 
think I remember some talk on this BB in the past about E-85 
carburetors.  The octane is certainly right for a lot of our cars at 
105.  Something to think about.
There are ethanol plants being built all over the corn belt.  I have 
heard that many of them may not be able to operate when finished because 
the rise in corn prices has made it economically unfeasible.??

Paul L.
'63 Sport Fury
440/727
http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.org/ml-lennemann63.html

Don Hudson wrote:
> 
> Verrrrry Interesting!  Are stock options available yet!
> 
> Bill wrote:
> > What do you guys (and gals) think of this...
> >
> >
> > "Check the websites below.
> >
> > You must watch this a few times.  If it's true, every country in the
> > world will be able to develop this concept and OPEC will beg us to use
> > oil.
> >
> > Why are we not making this a nation priority, instead of ethanol from
> > corn.  It takes more energy than we get out of corn to make ethanol.
> > In January of this year, at a meeting of the Engineers Club of Sun
> > City, Arizona, A.P.S. (the local power company) gave a presentation in
> > which they explained their plans to build such a plant south of
> > Phoenix, below Gila Bend. They were very upbeat about it's
> > possibilities. Maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel!-----
> >
> > Take a look at these videos and pay particular attention to the very
> > last statement made by the spokesman.
> >
> > http://www.valcent.net/i/misc/Vertigro/index.html
> >
> > http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/04/23/vertigro-turns-algae-into-biofuel/
> > 
> > "
> >
> >
> >
> >   


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