[GRLUG] OFF TOPIC Electric Car

[Collin Kidder]

Well... you have to take the land into account a bit because you cannot 
grow the same crop on the same land forever. That much I know about 
farming. You'll deplete the soil of the necessarily nutrients.

Rick Vargo wrote:
> 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:
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>>>> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Collin Kidder <adderd at kkmfg.com> wrote:
>>>>   
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>>>>         
>>>>> 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.
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>>>> 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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