Reply #8: Ethanol is probably the worst choice to syn gas processes. [View All]

There are about a thousand better things to make, unless of course, one merely is a car CULTist with an obesession.

Ethanol is corrosive, not suitable for pipelines, toxic, http://homepage.mac.com/oscura/ctd/incidents.html">dangerous, and miscible with water.

Thus far, except the acrylic acid Eastman plant in Tennessee, very few syn gas plants have remained commercially viable.

The feedstock for that plant is considerably more homogenous.

A few years back here, I'd guess 4 to 5 years ago, we heard all about the Changing World turkey guts to oil plant that was suppose to um, change the world.

It didn't.

You can be a "renewables will save us" car CULTist on this website without soothsaying. They can't construct a post, or even a sentance "could."

With Changing World it was "could" make oil for $10/barrell.

Appears to have been bullshit, doesn't it?

Everyday we have "solar could be competitive by..." or "wind could meet all of our energy needs..." or "ethanol could eliminate a brazillion barrels of oil..." year after year after year after year after year.

You get the impression that not one of these "could" statements is made by a person who has ever opened a science book.