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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Ethanol a net energy loss
  • Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:25:16 -0600


Adding up the energy costs of corn production and its conversion into
ethanol, 131,000 BTUs are needed to make one gallon of ethanol. One gallon of
ethanol has an energy value of only 77,000 BTUS. Thus, 70 percent more energy
is required to produce ethanol than the energy that actually is in it. Every
time you make one gallon of ethanol, there is a net energy loss of 54,000
BTUs. . .

http://healthandenergy.com/ethanol.htm

paul, tradingpost@riseup.net
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