Thread: Somebody’s been sniffing ethanol
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Old 02-16-2007, 07:36 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by baloney_detector View Post
From what I've read, the key to making Ethanol a viable form of vehicle fuel is in deriving it from cellulose-cornstalks and the straw of grains and grasses-rather than from corn itself.

Read an article in the January '07 issue of Scientific American for an interesting take on ethanol if you can.
Yeah, I suppose that would explain why there are dozens of CORN ethanol plants throughout the Midwest - and dozens more being built right now.