corn is grass.


"Grass is what my food eats."   Ron Swanson


At 07:11 AM 8/26/2014, Pete wrote:
>Some good answers here, led me to do some more research
>
>About 1/3 of the US corn crop goes towards livestock feed.
>13% is exported.
>40% is used for ethanol production
>That leaves 14% for food and beverage (including oils, syrups, sugars)
>
>Ethanol is being used in some cases to replace MTBE, to increase 
>octane rating.  Why?  Because of it's resistance to ignition.  This 
>is  very tiny percentage of the gasoline blend.  E10 and E85 are 
>ethanol as an attempt to replace fossil fuels.  However, that 
>resistance to ignition, when used at 10% or 86% is what makes it an 
>inefficient fuel, increasing consumption by 3% or 25% 
>respectively.  It takes one unit of fossil fuel to generate 1.3 
>units of (less efficient) ethanol fuel.
>
>Since 1980, the ethanol industry has received $45B in government subsidies.
>
>The windmills don't seem so bad anymore.
>
>Pete


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