[GRLUG] OFF TOPIC Electric Car

[Rick Vargo]

No, you switch off to another crop that is efficient.

Rick


Collin Kidder wrote:
> 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:
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>> 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
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>> Collin Kidder wrote:
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>>> 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:
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>>>> 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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