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To: Jerry in Omaha who wrote (299)	8/14/2001 4:53:54 PM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16955

Huh? 1000 gallons of fuel to grow an acre of corn? I would be surprised if it was 20 gallons. And where does he buy fuel for 34.7 cents a gallon? Something's all screwy here. << An acre of U.S. corn yields about 7,110 pounds of corn for processing into 328 gallons of ethanol. But planting, growing and harvesting that much corn requires about 1,000 gallons of fossil fuels and costs $347 per acre, according to Pimentel's analysis. Thus, even before corn is converted to ethanol, the feedstock costs $1.05 per gallon of ethanol. >> I like the idea of running the corn through cattle first, and then letting bacteria process the manure into methane, which is a great hydrogen feedstock. Del