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Originally Posted by Fishteacher73
Humans have ALWAYS had VERY ineffecient fuels. Even our harnessing of nuclear power has a pretty low yield of the actual energy stored in atoms.
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True. I was just hoping that someone could confirm that reference on inefficiency of alcohol production. My ulterior motive is mainly political. Our midwest farmers are madly producing ethanol as a gasoline additive, because they are subsidized by the federal government. If they are consuming more fuel than they produce in doing so, it would ne nice to advertize that we are spending federal tax subsidies to throw away energy.
Not that I think the federal government is rational. It just would be nice to know the answer.
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