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To: Slagle who wrote (457)9/13/2005 9:51:23 PM
From: Elroy Jetson  Read Replies (2) of 219610
 
We can make a rough comparison between corn and sugar can by comparing market price. Corn ethanol costs $1.10 per gallon while Brazilian ethanol from sugar cane costs $0.90 per gallon.

Obviously the relative efficiency in creating ethanol from these two crops is something marginal like the 22% difference in price. The problem is a relatively small percentage of each plant is either starch or sugar.

Bio-conversion of cellulose into sugar can increase the ethanol yield per acre by 2 to 3 fold. It also enables the use of faster growing plants, like switch grass, which need neither herbicides not fertilizers.
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