Filed under: Ethanol, Manufacturing/Plants
EPIC goes to grade school for "How Ethanol Is Made" video
Flash video meets memories of filmstrips in a new animated "movie" over at the Driving Ethanol website called "How Ethanol Is Made." It's pretty easy to understand, and is - as expected - entirely pro-ethanol. No critical assessment of water tables or questionable energy gains here.
What we do get is the story of how ethanol can be made from corn, but also "most sugar-containing plant materials, such as sorghum, wheat, barley and potatoes!" The animation shows us the multi-step process that corn goes through on its way to become ethanol.
All I can think of is that when I grow up, I'm going to Bovine University! Call this my way of "going yellow."
[Source: Driving Ethanol]
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John Metcalf 12:52PM (10/30/2007)
Fun and facinating video. Seems like a really complex, energy intensive process, but then oil refining is probably similar.
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GreyFlcn 1:43PM (10/30/2007)
Sure, this is how you create ethanol
Use a lot of fossil fuels, and a tiny bit of sunlight.
It's just like laundering dirty mafia money! :P
http://greyfalcon.net/etoh2.png
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GreyFlcn 1:54PM (10/30/2007)
Sure, this is how you create ethanol.
Use a lot of fossil fuels, and a tiny bit of sunlight.
Since remember kids, ethanol is only 1.0 to 0.1% efficient at turning sunlight into torque.
And it can't get any farther unless we change our cars, not our fuels, because photosynthesis is the inherient limitation.
http://greyfalcon.net/etoh2.png
http://greyfalcon.net/sugarsolar
http://greyfalcon.net/ethanol.png
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