[GRLUG] OFF TOPIC Electric Car

[Collin Kidder]

I'll have to check out the site on using alcohol as gas... But if you 
get 1700 gallons per acre then you need to spend only $1700 on that acre 
including planting, watering, picking, and fermenting if you want $1/g. 
That sounds like a tall order for $1700. But, I'm no farmer.

Rick Vargo wrote:
> 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.
>>   
>>     
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