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deep SW On. | 5 Head - 3/18/2018 07:47
Is ethanol really a renewable resource?
Put up a wind tower and you get electricity for 20 years with a little maintenance. Takes a 200 square foot pad, can farm around it and can recycle everything but the blades when done. The electricity runs to your house by wires, no trucks. Plug in your car at night.
Want ethanol? Every year you need to plant corn which uses diesel , fertilizer, chemicals (natural resources). Then you truck it to a plant for processing, then truck it to a refinery for blending then truck it to a gas station.
It’s no wonder ethanol is a hard sell. 20 years and it can’t stand on its own. Better try selling it as clean air verses renewable. But it is not as clean as a wind farm and electric car.
My 2 cents from a corn producer and distillers user.
The OP is about a small turbine for his own farm use ,he is a corn producer & distillers user.........he has valid points of corn needing natural resources every yr......we also grow corn/feed distillers and know cheap corn isn't good for livestock industry long term.......If we can put all our own interests aside and bias' then one can decide is the energy gain from corn to ethanol/ddg's are comparable and can compete with other energy sources.....the OP has a valid idea that it would be nice too have our own energy source on the farm....some greenhouse operations,the old HJ Heinz plant,Stratford Hospital,ect. have built co-generation plants ( ng powered turbines) run off NG too produce the electric power & capture the heat.....At our electric rates they have a 2 yr. payback.......History later will determine which ideas were the best, drive through the "rust belt" and you see shuttered factories that I expect people thought were going to be around for ever.....Who knows ,maybe we all will be under Putin's control in a few yrs. if his claims of military superiority is correct | |
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Ethanol, a non renewable resource.
