<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I had seen a documentary that said switch
grass was the most efficient biofuel.</font>
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<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">11/19/2008 02:51 PM</font>
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<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Re: [GRLUG] OFF TOPIC Electric Car</font></table>
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<br><tt><font size=2>Corn is a terrible bio fuel you can only get about
700 gallons from an<br>
acre. Sugar cane is the best. Around here, the best thing to grow for a<br>
bio fuel is probably sugar beats. I think an acre will make about 1700<br>
gallons of alcohol.<br>
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Rick<br>
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Michael Mol wrote:<br>
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Collin Kidder <adderd@kkmfg.com>
wrote:<br>
> <br>
>> An electric motor can be made darn near 100% efficient. As a bonus<br>
>> electrical lines are found almost everywhere. It's like a built
in gas<br>
>> station in every building you see. So, I do believe that electric
cars<br>
>> will end up being the way forward.<br>
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> It remains to be seen how efficiently synthetic hydrocarbon fuels
can<br>
> be made; If those can be made sufficiently efficient, powering cars<br>
> off the grid won't work.<br>
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> Granted, corn doesn't appear to be getting us off to a good start.<br>
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