Day Brown wrote:
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>There is a win/win, and its ethanol from sorghum, not corn.
>
>The reason you dont hear about it is that the profits would go to the
>small farmers rather than the big cor****ations. Not that there are not
>downsides. But:
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>A U of GA study shows you can get 100-120 gallons of ethanol off an acre
>of sorghum that only needs 3.5 gallons of tractor fuel to work.
>
>Rather than cooking down the juice to syrup, ferment it for 5-7 days,
>when its 10% alcohol, then run the juice thru a solar still. Duck soup
>in August heat. You only need 171 deg F to boil off the alcohol
>
>Feed the left over mash to cattle for burgers or milk.
>feed the seed heads to chickens for eggs and legs.
>You wont need chemical fertilizers much less GM seed. Sorghum is more
>resistant to pests and tolerates drought better than corn. It also grows
>better on marginal land.
>
>Put the manure back on the land; you dont need chemical fertilizers. Be
>a good idea tho to use some of the money from all this to buy greensand.
>Its an acceptibly organic fertilzer from deposits of Cambrian beech sand
>that has some slow release phosphorus as well as a wide variety of trace
>minerals which- if present in the food, maximize childhood mental
>development.
>
>Most of those you try to dialogue with were raised on sugar cereals,
>junkfood and soda, and their minds did not develop to the full potential
>as a result. Mostly, they are neurotic, and rather than educated when
>presented with the facts, get angry.
>
>Oh, I almost forgot the downside. Since fermenting sorghum is so simple,
>every small farmer could use a cheap plastic swimming pool to ferment it
>in, then a cheap pump with plastic pipe for a still, and be selling jugs
>out on the road with the rest of his produce.
>
>The sour mash process for corn produces isopropyl alcohol, which is why
>moon****ne is poison; but sorghum produces rum, which is not. Customers
>could drive on it, or drink it. The BATF would schitt a brick.
So would OPEC. The only way to break the OPEC cartel is with
biofuels. Most of the disinformation about biofuels comes from the
oil fascists. Like you wrote, it's simple. Ferment at room temp,
distill at 170 degrees and put it in your tank.
I'd rather sup****t US farmers than sheiks.
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