Comments on: Harvard report on biofuels: Proceed with caution http://iowaindependent.com/3311/harvard-report-on-biofuels-proceed-with-caution Iowa politics, news, and commentary Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:46:10 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Jon F. Freeman/SUCRON http://iowaindependent.com/3311/harvard-report-on-biofuels-proceed-with-caution/comment-page-1#comment-5959 Jon F. Freeman/SUCRON Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:37:52 +0000 http://iowaindependent.com/?p=3311#comment-5959 The liquid biofuel from glucose is not ethanol, but HEXANE. Glucose is the most abundant organic chemical: Wood = glucose = hexane = 2,2-dimethylbutane, an 89 octane gasoline @ $1.20 per gallon. There are 50 million acres around the Gulf Coast for growing 80 ton per acre high-biomass cane that yields 160 barrels of gasolines and chemical feedstocks per acre per year when run through a SUCRON unit. That is 8 billion barrels per year. The United States uses 7.6 billion barrels per year. Funding is needed to build the pilot plant. Jon F. Freeman President SUCRON P.O. Box 8095 Clinton, Louisiana 70722 225-683-6918 The liquid biofuel from glucose is not ethanol, but HEXANE. Glucose is the most abundant organic chemical:

Wood = glucose = hexane = 2,2-dimethylbutane, an 89 octane gasoline @ $1.20 per gallon.

There are 50 million acres around the Gulf Coast for growing 80 ton per acre high-biomass cane that yields 160 barrels of gasolines and chemical feedstocks per acre per year when run through a SUCRON unit. That is 8 billion barrels per year. The United States uses 7.6 billion barrels per year.

Funding is needed to build the pilot plant.

Jon F. Freeman
President
SUCRON
P.O. Box 8095
Clinton, Louisiana 70722
225-683-6918

]]> By: Jon F. Freeman/SUCRON http://iowaindependent.com/3311/harvard-report-on-biofuels-proceed-with-caution/comment-page-1#comment-7368 Jon F. Freeman/SUCRON Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:37:52 +0000 http://iowaindependent.com/?p=3311#comment-7368 The liquid biofuel from glucose is not ethanol, but HEXANE. Glucose is the most abundant organic chemical:<br><br>Wood = glucose = hexane = 2,2-dimethylbutane, an 89 octane gasoline @ $1.20 per gallon.<br><br>There are 50 million acres around the Gulf Coast for growing 80 ton per acre high-biomass cane that yields 160 barrels of gasolines and chemical feedstocks per acre per year when run through a SUCRON unit. That is 8 billion barrels per year. The United States uses 7.6 billion barrels per year.<br><br>Funding is needed to build the pilot plant.<br><br>Jon F. Freeman<br>President<br>SUCRON<br>P.O. Box 8095<br>Clinton, Louisiana 70722<br>225-683-6918 The liquid biofuel from glucose is not ethanol, but HEXANE. Glucose is the most abundant organic chemical:

Wood = glucose = hexane = 2,2-dimethylbutane, an 89 octane gasoline @ $1.20 per gallon.

There are 50 million acres around the Gulf Coast for growing 80 ton per acre high-biomass cane that yields 160 barrels of gasolines and chemical feedstocks per acre per year when run through a SUCRON unit. That is 8 billion barrels per year. The United States uses 7.6 billion barrels per year.

Funding is needed to build the pilot plant.

Jon F. Freeman
President
SUCRON
P.O. Box 8095
Clinton, Louisiana 70722
225-683-6918

]]> By: Ron Robins http://iowaindependent.com/3311/harvard-report-on-biofuels-proceed-with-caution/comment-page-1#comment-5955 Ron Robins Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:18:01 +0000 http://iowaindependent.com/?p=3311#comment-5955 As I see it, energy conservation is the way to go. Then the rationale for biofuels would be reduced. Also, let's not forget that government financial support for biofuels has contributed to higher food costs - and hundred's of millions of people either starving or on the edge of starvation. Government is not the answer, but in many the cases is the problem! Energy costs need to be free market oriented. But those free markets also need to include in their pricing the full costs of all resources used. For instance, oil from the Canadian tar sands requires three barrels of water - which is virtually cost-free - for each barrel of water. Clearly, with water becoming a precious commodity globally, tar sands oil would need to be priced higher were it to include paying 'appropriately' for its water supplies. No, the fundamental decision we need to make is how to become highly efficient in our energy use and that energy costs are subjected to 'full cost accounting.' As I see it, energy conservation is the way to go. Then the rationale for biofuels would be reduced. Also, let’s not forget that government financial support for biofuels has contributed to higher food costs – and hundred’s of millions of people either starving or on the edge of starvation. Government is not the answer, but in many the cases is the problem!

Energy costs need to be free market oriented. But those free markets also need to include in their pricing the full costs of all resources used. For instance, oil from the Canadian tar sands requires three barrels of water – which is virtually cost-free – for each barrel of water. Clearly, with water becoming a precious commodity globally, tar sands oil would need to be priced higher were it to include paying ‘appropriately’ for its water supplies.

No, the fundamental decision we need to make is how to become highly efficient in our energy use and that energy costs are subjected to ‘full cost accounting.’

]]> By: Ron Robins http://iowaindependent.com/3311/harvard-report-on-biofuels-proceed-with-caution/comment-page-1#comment-7369 Ron Robins Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:18:01 +0000 http://iowaindependent.com/?p=3311#comment-7369 As I see it, energy conservation is the way to go. Then the rationale for biofuels would be reduced. Also, let's not forget that government financial support for biofuels has contributed to higher food costs - and hundred's of millions of people either starving or on the edge of starvation. Government is not the answer, but in many the cases is the problem!<br><br>Energy costs need to be free market oriented. But those free markets also need to include in their pricing the full costs of all resources used. For instance, oil from the Canadian tar sands requires three barrels of water - which is virtually cost-free - for each barrel of water. Clearly, with water becoming a precious commodity globally, tar sands oil would need to be priced higher were it to include paying 'appropriately' for its water supplies.<br><br>No, the fundamental decision we need to make is how to become highly efficient in our energy use and that energy costs are subjected to 'full cost accounting.' As I see it, energy conservation is the way to go. Then the rationale for biofuels would be reduced. Also, let's not forget that government financial support for biofuels has contributed to higher food costs – and hundred's of millions of people either starving or on the edge of starvation. Government is not the answer, but in many the cases is the problem!

Energy costs need to be free market oriented. But those free markets also need to include in their pricing the full costs of all resources used. For instance, oil from the Canadian tar sands requires three barrels of water – which is virtually cost-free – for each barrel of water. Clearly, with water becoming a precious commodity globally, tar sands oil would need to be priced higher were it to include paying 'appropriately' for its water supplies.

No, the fundamental decision we need to make is how to become highly efficient in our energy use and that energy costs are subjected to 'full cost accounting.'

]]> By: Tom Gandolfo http://iowaindependent.com/3311/harvard-report-on-biofuels-proceed-with-caution/comment-page-1#comment-5950 Tom Gandolfo Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:16:13 +0000 http://iowaindependent.com/?p=3311#comment-5950 It is unfortunate, and I suspect no accident, that the term "Biofuels" has become by repetitious propaganda synonymous with Ethanol. The term "Biofuel" describes a category not a particular biofuel. Ethanol is but one (1) biobuel. Large Agrobusiness farms and Archer Daniel Midland have conspired to make "their" biofuel THE dominate biofuel to the detriment of other legitimate biofuels. Thomas C. Gandolfo Asheville, NC It is unfortunate, and I suspect no accident, that the term “Biofuels” has become by repetitious propaganda synonymous with Ethanol. The term “Biofuel” describes a category not a particular biofuel. Ethanol is but one (1) biobuel. Large Agrobusiness farms and Archer Daniel Midland have conspired to make “their” biofuel THE dominate biofuel to the detriment of other legitimate biofuels.

Thomas C. Gandolfo
Asheville, NC

]]> By: Tom Gandolfo http://iowaindependent.com/3311/harvard-report-on-biofuels-proceed-with-caution/comment-page-1#comment-7370 Tom Gandolfo Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:16:13 +0000 http://iowaindependent.com/?p=3311#comment-7370 It is unfortunate, and I suspect no accident, that the term "Biofuels" has become by repetitious propaganda synonymous with Ethanol. The term "Biofuel" describes a category not a particular biofuel. Ethanol is but one (1) biobuel. Large Agrobusiness farms and Archer Daniel Midland have conspired to make "their" biofuel THE dominate biofuel to the detriment of other legitimate biofuels.<br><br>Thomas C. Gandolfo<br>Asheville, NC It is unfortunate, and I suspect no accident, that the term “Biofuels” has become by repetitious propaganda synonymous with Ethanol. The term “Biofuel” describes a category not a particular biofuel. Ethanol is but one (1) biobuel. Large Agrobusiness farms and Archer Daniel Midland have conspired to make “their” biofuel THE dominate biofuel to the detriment of other legitimate biofuels.

Thomas C. Gandolfo
Asheville, NC

]]> By: Tom Gandolfo http://iowaindependent.com/3311/harvard-report-on-biofuels-proceed-with-caution/comment-page-1#comment-5949 Tom Gandolfo Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:12:56 +0000 http://iowaindependent.com/?p=3311#comment-5949 It is unfortunate, and I suspect no accident, that the term "Biofuels" has become by repetitious propaganda synonymous with Ethanol. The term "Biofuel" describes a category not a particular biofuel. Ethanol is but one (1) biobuel. Large Agrobusiness farms and Archer Daniel Midland have conspired to make "their" biofuel THE dominate biofuel to the detriment of other legitimate biofuels. Thomas C. Gandlfo Asheville, NC It is unfortunate, and I suspect no accident, that the term “Biofuels” has become by repetitious propaganda synonymous with Ethanol. The term “Biofuel” describes a category not a particular biofuel. Ethanol is but one (1) biobuel. Large Agrobusiness farms and Archer Daniel Midland have conspired to make “their” biofuel THE dominate biofuel to the detriment of other legitimate biofuels.

Thomas C. Gandlfo
Asheville, NC

]]> By: Tom Gandolfo http://iowaindependent.com/3311/harvard-report-on-biofuels-proceed-with-caution/comment-page-1#comment-7371 Tom Gandolfo Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:12:56 +0000 http://iowaindependent.com/?p=3311#comment-7371 It is unfortunate, and I suspect no accident, that the term "Biofuels" has become by repetitious propaganda synonymous with Ethanol. The term "Biofuel" describes a category not a particular biofuel. Ethanol is but one (1) biobuel. Large Agrobusiness farms and Archer Daniel Midland have conspired to make "their" biofuel THE dominate biofuel to the detriment of other legitimate biofuels.<br><br>Thomas C. Gandlfo<br>Asheville, NC It is unfortunate, and I suspect no accident, that the term “Biofuels” has become by repetitious propaganda synonymous with Ethanol. The term “Biofuel” describes a category not a particular biofuel. Ethanol is but one (1) biobuel. Large Agrobusiness farms and Archer Daniel Midland have conspired to make “their” biofuel THE dominate biofuel to the detriment of other legitimate biofuels.

Thomas C. Gandlfo
Asheville, NC

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