[GRLUG] OFF TOPIC Electric Car

[Rick Vargo]

Corn is a terrible bio fuel you can only get about 700 gallons from an
acre. Sugar cane is the best. Around here, the best thing to grow for a
bio fuel is probably sugar beats. I think an acre will make about 1700
gallons of alcohol.

Rick


Michael Mol wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Collin Kidder <adderd at kkmfg.com> wrote:
>   
>> An electric motor can be made darn near 100% efficient. As a bonus
>> electrical lines are found almost everywhere. It's like a built in gas
>> station in every building you see. So, I do believe that electric cars
>> will end up being the way forward.
>>     
>
> It remains to be seen how efficiently synthetic hydrocarbon fuels can
> be made; If those can be made sufficiently efficient, powering cars
> off the grid won't work.
>
> Granted, corn doesn't appear to be getting us off to a good start.
>