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Originally Posted by Brians256
BTW, I would guess that the $40/gal estimate for ethanol is based upon no change in method for producing the ethanol. If we come up with a more practical method of producing ethanol... things could be better. One great advance would be producing ethanol from standard unprocessed cellulose stocks (i.e. waste vegetative material) instead of high-sugar materials such as corn. There are some papers that detail such an approach by using special bacteria, but I haven't seen any commercial success yet.
We can always hope.
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That is what I have been told by people that are in the fuel business. Get to talk to alot of them in my line of work. What that is based on I am not sure. I can see why it makes since though. They would have to come up with something that is out of todays tech reach.
Probably easier to make electric or hydrogen take over.