America's First Cellulosic Ethanol Plant

hankmt writes "The state of Georgia just granted Range Fuels a permit to create the first cellulosic ethanol plant in America. Cellulosic ethanol produces ethanol from cellulose, which all plants have, instead of from sugar, which is only abundant in food crops. Corn ethanol only produces 1.3 units of energy for every unit of energy that goes into growing the crop and converting the sugar to ethanol. Cellulosic ethanol can produce as much as 16 units of energy for every one unit of energy put into the process. The new plant will be online in 2008 and aims to produce 100 million gallons of ethanol a year."

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Re:Where do these numbers keep coming from?

[djh101010]

It's even worse than that, since methanol production is heavily subsidized by the Federal Government. Your reliability on this topic is, ahem, somewhat diminished let's say, by the fact that you seem to have confused "ethanol" and "methanol". Sometimes the better way to support your point, is to stay silent when you don't have a basic understanding of it.

I might even expand on that to say, that if you aren't clear on what you're arguing against, you just might now have done enough research to have made your decision on facts rather than emotions. Just sayin...