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Old 04-28-2008, 08:24 AM   #29 (permalink)
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Re: GM announces location of Coskata cellulosic ethanol plant

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Originally Posted by HoosierRon View Post
This is not a VHS vs. BETA battle. Whether you make ethanol from corn or sugar or garbage or switchgrass, the end product is the same: C2H5OH.
What I was referring to was competing technologies and approaches....BETA and VHS were differing in substance yet both resulted in storable replayable video imagery, just as both competing methods I addressed result in ethanol as fuel for cars....one approach consumes vast amounts of water and soil input to produce the feed stock, one uses pre-existing plant waste as feed stock. I greatly prefer the latter as water and the sources of fertilizers are dwindling whereas plant waste is renewable and now generally discarded. As I said before, I think it will be interesting to in time see which predominates.
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