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Your own backyard gas station
Are Backyard Ethanol Brewers an Answer to High-Priced Gas?: Scientific American
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Re: Your own backyard gas station
There is talk of turning some of our canefields to ethanol production.
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Re: Your own backyard gas station
I have read this before. Based on their information the cost of the feedstock alone is between $2.10 and $4.20 per US gallon after subsidies. The 'savings' would be in the range of $2,000 to -$1,500 per year based on operating 2 vehicles.
With the price of sugar close to $1.00 per lb in Canada, a person would have to drink a gallon per week to make it financially feasible.  Allen
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Re: Your own backyard gas station
We need one that runs off banana fiber and pseudostems.
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Re: Your own backyard gas station
Make sure you get a federal perment for distillation for fuel, and you have to posion it. You can do the same thing with much cheaper equipment.
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