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Old 08-01-2008, 11:12 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Re: Field test confirms miscanthus far better than corn or switchgrass for ethanol

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Originally Posted by killerrd2 View Post
I'm still not convinced that ethanol is a viable alternative to gas/oil. Ethanol provides less power than gasoline and mileage suffers greatly.
Someone has been drinking the big oil kool-aid. Ethanol is still extremely energy rich. Most of the energy in gasoline gets wasted anyways. And actually ethanol can be MORE fuel efficient than gasoline if it's burned in an engined designed only for ethanol. Ethanol only engines have a much higher compression ratio which allows you to extract more of the energy.
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