Thread: Somebody’s been sniffing ethanol
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Old 02-16-2007, 07:05 PM   #11 (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.
Is this the article you are talking about:
Is Ethanol for the Long Haul? By: Wald, Matthew L.. Scientific American, January 2007, Vol. 296 Issue 1, p42, 8p; Ethanol could displace gasoline, but it won't pay off until we find a way to distill cornstalks, not corn. (AN 23354779)
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