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Substitute alcohol fuel
dave anderson over 1 year ago
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Hi all: I have heard that using corn for alcohol fuel is making food prices go higher. In the desert there is lots of open land that will not support normal food crops. Why not cultivate native plants. Native plants are drought, insect and disease resistant. Plants like Agave, prickly pear and Joshua trees can be fermented and distilled to make alcohol fuel.The materal left over could be burned to produce steam for electricty. Waste water from desert cities could be
used to irrigate the native crops. Oil is a finite resource. We may be running out of it more rapidly then We are told.
There are news reports about a company that is developing an alcohol fuel in Mojave. I am experimenting around with differtent weed plants. Maybe I can put to use my college chemisrty classes.
Amanda brought up the agave plant for fuel as well, posting a link to a great article on the topic, Drink it or Drive it: The promise of Agave for Ethanol. Thought you might be interested.
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over 1 year ago beingzoe said ...
Do you know of anybody who is already doing something like this? Even on a personal or small scale?
Sounds great. The more we look around us I think we will be surprised at just how much unused, wasted energy is all around us. Usually it’s my mouth wasting energy, if only someone could hook a generator up to that!