Posted by relaurain on September 10, 2008 at 06:53:09 from (97.73.64.175):
I've read posts about using corn fuel for tractor use and after thinking about it, I find it hard to believe a person can get ahead by making "E85" themselves. If you factor the cost of each step it take to create this fuel, you aren't ahead at all. A person has to factor in his time as well as the following costs: Prepping the ground fertilizer pest control corn seed fuel to run the tractor harvesting the corn grinding the corn for mash yeast heat source to boil mash heat source to boil down and distill "wine" and so on The heat it takes just to boil this down for that amount of time makes it unfeasable unless you have a lot of free wood or something. It appears that because of the heating to create this fuel, a larger scale would be more profitable but still not probable.
I would like to hear from anyone who has tried this or is doing it and not just speculation that it will work.
I am all for the idea, and would make my own fuel in this way if possible, but would use a blend. Remember, this alcohol fuel is hard on motors that don't have chrome rings - they found that out in the 70's with Gasahol.
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