[GRLUG] OFF TOPIC Electric Car

[Rick Vargo]

I guess I shouldn't have assumed that you would already have the
property... The $1 a gallon is for planting, growing, fertilizing,
etc... They also suggest that you can contract with a farmer for
product. This is not as cheap of a method but is still equivalent to the
cost of gas...

Rick


Collin Kidder wrote:
> 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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