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[Claude William Genest <genest@pivot.net>]

I'd be careful with the dollar cost of conversion - it's the energy  
cost that is relevant....

Claude William


On Jan 31, 2006, at 2:13 PM, Chuck Learned wrote:

> > I want to burst this bubble.
> >
> > > In the best case scenario, petroleum to ethanol ratio was 0.8 :  
> > > 1.0 when
> > everything was taken into account.
>
> Well if you are going to burst the ethanol bubble then perhaps you  
> can speak
> to the conversion ratio of the cellulosic ethanol that the article  
> speaks
> to. It seems there is a significant breakthrough there where they are
> talking about conversion cost dropping from $5 a barrel to $.20 a  
> barrel.
> Have you researched this or are you speaking about the traditional  
> method?
> Chuck Learned
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