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Re: Ethanol and biodiesel from corn and other crops is not worth the energy

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Originally Posted by C1ay
I suppose someone could make a solar still to extract the ethanol from corn...
Good thought. That would also get around the transport cost problem, if thewe were small scale units that were used by the folks that actually grew the corn. It would be interesting to see how much of the energy cost was atributed to the fertilizer and herbicides.


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