Also, the United States converted more corn grain to ethanol last year than any other year. The United States also exported more corn grain for feed and food than any other year last year. The ethanol from corn grain process produces 9 to 17 pounds of dried distillers grains per bushel of corn that is used as animal feed.

Lets get off of middle east oil and quit paying the people that hate us over a billion dollars a day and get behind the biofuels. Even if corn grain to ethanol is a stepping stone, we need to have the fortitude to stick with it until we have cellulosic ethanol worked out and commercially feasible.

Fred Brilla

Also, the United States converted more corn grain to ethanol last year than any other year. The United States also exported more corn grain for feed and food than any other year last year. The ethanol from corn grain process produces 9 to 17 pounds of dried distillers grains per bushel of corn that is used as animal feed.

Lets get off of middle east oil and quit paying the people that hate us over a billion dollars a day and get behind the biofuels. Even if corn grain to ethanol is a stepping stone, we need to have the fortitude to stick with it until we have cellulosic ethanol worked out and commercially feasible.

Fred Brilla

We are not running out of oil. the earth is getting colder ( it snowed in october over most of the east coast of the usa and in London for the first time in over 100 years) and we are being forced to become poor because of government restrictions on energy production at home, and we sent ten times the cost of the iraq war overseas in the last two years in oil payments to foreigners. I am tired of wearing a hair shirt for politicians who dont have my best interests, and i see no reason why the public should be forced to support giving energy credits to alternative energy producers who are otherwise uneconomic when there is plenty of energy at home

We are not running out of oil. the earth is getting colder ( it snowed in october over most of the east coast of the usa and in London for the first time in over 100 years) and we are being forced to become poor because of government restrictions on energy production at home, and we sent ten times the cost of the iraq war overseas in the last two years in oil payments to foreigners. I am tired of wearing a hair shirt for politicians who dont have my best interests, and i see no reason why the public should be forced to support giving energy credits to alternative energy producers who are otherwise uneconomic when there is plenty of energy at home

We are not running out of oil. the earth is getting colder ( it snowed in october over most of the east coast of the usa and in London for the first time in over 100 years) and we are being forced to become poor because of government restrictions on energy production at home, and we sent ten times the cost of the iraq war overseas in the last two years in oil payments to foreigners. I am tired of wearing a hair shirt for politicians who dont have my best interests, and i see no reason why the public should be forced to support giving energy credits to alternative energy producers who are otherwise uneconomic when there is plenty of energy at home

tell us how the guy converts wood into alcohol, exactly? that’s okay; just tell us how you get the cellulosic bonds broken down to glucose. cellulose – polymeric glucose, but how do you break cellulose into glucose, exactly? come on. no bullshit. how’d you do that, dude? you tell me that, and i’m a believer. ie WTF is your cellulase? No handwaving now; you got some of that in a test tube, some little white powder or other, or whatever? come ON, man, you got that activity? man, I hope you do, if you do, you would be the MAN!!! or woman. whhatever.

tell us how the guy converts wood into alcohol, exactly? that’s okay; just tell us how you get the cellulosic bonds broken down to glucose. cellulose – polymeric glucose, but how do you break cellulose into glucose, exactly? come on. no bullshit. how’d you do that, dude? you tell me that, and i’m a believer. ie WTF is your cellulase? No handwaving now; you got some of that in a test tube, some little white powder or other, or whatever? come ON, man, you got that activity? man, I hope you do, if you do, you would be the MAN!!! or woman. whhatever.

Of course, we would soon run out of available cellulosic stuff as there is a limit to the amount of cellulosic material that we can grow sustainably in a year without depletion of cellulosic stock, regardless of whether it is used to feed thermoelectric power plants or used as a substrate in processes to produce ethanol. And this doesn’t even take into consideration the detrimental effects that growing and harvesting that much cellulosic material will have on depleting the soil of nutrients, reducing water tables and degrading streams, rivers and the Gulf of Mexico. Our farm lands should be used exclusively for producing food products and our forests should be used to produce lumber for building homes.

Of course, we would soon run out of available cellulosic stuff as there is a limit to the amount of cellulosic material that we can grow sustainably in a year without depletion of cellulosic stock, regardless of whether it is used to feed thermoelectric power plants or used as a substrate in processes to produce ethanol. And this doesn’t even take into consideration the detrimental effects that growing and harvesting that much cellulosic material will have on depleting the soil of nutrients, reducing water tables and degrading streams, rivers and the Gulf of Mexico. Our farm lands should be used exclusively for producing food products and our forests should be used to produce lumber for building homes.