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In 2005, the U.S. produced 42 percent of the world’s corn. Over 50 percent of the U.S. crop is produced in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska or Illinois. Other states in which corn is grown include Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Missouri. In 2005, over 58 percent of the U.S. corn crop was used for feed. The remaining U.S. crop was split between exports (25 percent) and food, seed or industrial uses such as ethanol production (17 percent).
Grass Makes Better Ethanol than Corn Does: Scientific American
Switchgrass ethanol delivers 540 percent of the energy used to produce it, compared with just roughly 25 percent more energy returned by corn-based ethanol according to the most optimistic studies.
I would never defend anything Obama says or does under any circumstances he's a worthless piece of Shiite in my book, so here are a few facts.
Where in the USA do you think they should increase production of sugar cane?Well that is good to know that you can never defend anything the President does.
But for the actual article I am glad to see pushes for alternative fuel, but I do not think corn based is the right way to go. Maybe we can learn from Brazil because sugar for them seems to be doing pretty well.
Where in the USA do you think they should increase production of sugar cane?
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There is not much corn grown in those areas. How much additional acreage in those states could be devoted to sugar cane?Florida, LA, possibly Miss.
Where in the USA do you think they should increase production of sugar cane?
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Yet another brilliant proposal from this democratic regime. Crap.
Depends how you look at it. High Fructose Corn Syrup is pretty much the key reason why Americans are fat. Making that progressively expensive would promote less fattening substitutes. And sugar does taste better anyways. And cattle are meant to eat grass. They are ruminant for crying out loud. They did not evolve for millions of years eating corn.
And I take it you think that more clean coal and nuclear are stupid? After all, those were in the plan. :2wave:
Clean coal is not clean. Coal is stupid!
Nuclear has no emissions other than heat and steam, and all of the issues with waste and radiation are easily handled.
How you figure that?The Brazilians have it right with sugar cane based ethanol. Much more energy content and no rise in prices because you have corn to clean up the slack.
How you figure that?
There is not much corn grown in those areas. How much additional acreage in those states could be devoted to sugar cane?
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Corn is also the main foodstuff we feed our cows at the commercial farms. And c'mon, let's be real, anything that has the word "fructose" in the ingredients label is going to be affected.
The stillage is sent through a centrifuge that separates the coarse grain from the solubles. The solubles are then concentrated to about 30% solids by evaporation, resulting in Condensed Distillers Solubles (CDS) or "syrup." The coarse grain and the syrup are then dried together to produce dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS), a high quality, nutritious livestock feed. The CO2 released during fermentation is captured and sold for use in carbonating soft drinks and beverages and the manufacture of dry ice.