ElM, well over quarter of a century ago, I was dabbling in alternative fuels for vehicles and that included ethanol. Ethanol was made in my little Tauranga area from milk [the lactose being the feedstock] and from trees. Plus a lot of people made it at home to drink.
In NZ there are two steel mills at Otahuhu and Waiuku. I have been over every little bit of them and I would bet $10 to a knob of goat poop that any carbon monoxide produced there is not going to end up as ethanol.
You say you have a nose for wayo. Ethanol production is very large scale wayo around the world.
My living was earned in ethanol, methanol, CO, CO2, LPG, solar, Mq's secret formula, Mq's other secret formula, this that and the other, and a whole lot of that stuff for several years.
Sometimes people form companies for the purposes of mining shareholder money rather than mining profitable products. Maybe somebody has worked out that hordes of foolish investors want to invest in "green" alternative fuels to save the world from avoiding a return to the ice age we are in.
I will not be investing a brass razoo of my money in ethanol production from carbon monoxide, or from carbon dioxide for that matter, or sugar or anything else, [other than potable versions, in which case I'm going to be the customer, not the supplier].
Here is a way to spot wayo. Whenever, and I mean every time, you see the word sustainable, or sustainability, you are looking at wayo. If not wayo, then total stupidity. The use of the word is unsustainable and the users of the word unsustainability never seem to consider the sustainability of the tax flow with which they intend to power their sustainable visions for the future. But then, Wayo people are worried about getting the money NOW, not sustainably getting it because they know the suppliers can only lose it once, then they are bust.
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