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Originally Posted by RedJewel2SS
i had a professor back in college that did research on switchgrass, the only problem is corn and soy based ethanol is subsidized by the gov't so more bio fuel is being made from it than switchgrass. i was told that switchgrass can grow 6 feet in a couple of months and can grow in any exhausted soil!
only problem is it cost more to refine bio fuels than it does oil, and you can't make standard octane gasoline out of the stuff economically!
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You're professor is right.
What he didn't know at the time, because it didn't exist, is that there is a company, Coskata, with a refining procedure that promises a gallon of ethanol for about a buck. The great thing about the procedure is this: they can make it out of almost
anything. Almost anything carbon-based can be fed into the plant, and out will come ethanol that they can mix with gasoline to make E85.