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One of These will come in handy.
the propane burner and Ag. fuel/energy to make the feedstock (corn)make it an energy looser.
Raise a little corn (you can plant a couple of seeds, can't you) harvest it by hand, and replace the propane with corn cobs/stover.
Ya gotta think (the apocalypso is a'comin, man.)
Also, if you got any left over you can put it in the car. :)
The 25 Gallon Stock pot looks damn useful
Get real. There's only 16.7 kJ/g of energy in corn stover. That's not enough to run the distillation process, even at 80% combustion efficiency of biomass. You'd need external energy.
You get real; you're not going to distill ALL of your corn. You've gotta save some for the cow, and the chickens, and the corn-fired stove. You'll have Tons, literally, of cobs, and stover left over.
I can't believe my eyes. People are actually considering ethanol in posts at TOD. You don't have to make your own. Just buy some.
EROEI is irrelevant. It is the conversion of energy to a useful form that matters. Liquid fuel for transport is the problem. The infrastructure of cars etc., the distribution system, and the production system are in place for corn ethanol.
Ethanol has a higher utility and saves energy when compared to feeding corn to animals or exporting it so foreigners can feed it to animals or make ethanol out of it.
Anti ethanol arguments are based on fallacious logic. Ethanol benefits humanity. It's amazing how obvious it becomes as gas rises to $4 and beyond.
Anti ethanol arguments are based on fallacious logic. Ethanol benefits humanity.
I'll have to unlearn everything study I've read about ethanol so that I can reset my thinking in this manner. I can't for the life of me believe I had thought otherwise...
In my part of the country, people have been distilling ethanol from corn for centuries! :-)