Well one thing is you need a more efficient still.I dont know if it works but I read about one a while back that runs it back through the still until its almost pure.I think it was in Mother Earth News a while back.Another thing is you wouldnt have to use corn,Sugar cane is a lot better,and other stuff,sorgum,sugar beets,and even potatoes work,lots of stuff is better than corn.Sugar cane is supposedly almost 8 times better than corn.Say you made 1000 gallons,if you used sugar cane it would take a lot less than if you used corn.Im thinking it would take 300 bushels to make 1000 gallons of ethanol,Just a guess roughly,and if it was sugar cane divide that by 8 I guess,and you cut a step out of the process.300 bushel would be about 18000 lbs divide by 8 would be 2250 LBS.So I dont know but if my calculations are anywhere close,maybe somebody could ship you a pallet or 2 of sugar cane and use that.Where I might be wrong is that I think it was sugar cane returns 8 times the energy it takes to produce ethanol where corn returns 1 1/2 times the energy it takes to produce ethanol.Even if sugar cane was only half better that would be 9000 lbs of sugar cane to 18000 lbs of corn.To my thinking,if this is the case,it would take less of everything or maybe I am wrong about that but to somehow get 1000 gallons of ethanol maybe you can run the cane through more than once.Seems a little hard to find out anything about it,so that probably means it works real good.Brazil is independent because of sugar cane ethanol and we even import from them to mix with gas,
Seems like on the still in Mother Earth News it made steam and they shot that through to make it faster or something.I saw them explain how the Ethanol plants work on Tv and they use steam the same way,so I guess he has the right idea using steam to speed up the process.
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