Comments on: Good Ethanol http://cleanenergywonk.com/2006/11/05/good-ethanol/ Thoughts on Clean Energy Policy and Economics. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:25:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Tom Fisher http://cleanenergywonk.com/2006/11/05/good-ethanol/#comment-17686 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:57:50 +0000 http://tomkonrad.wordpress.com/2006/11/05/good-ethanol/#comment-17686 I think that this is a great idea, and hope that more types of approaches like this are used. However, feedlots are not the best way to feed cattle. Pasture is. Also, taking the corn or other grain and distilling them first, improves the food value of the grain, and is better digested then straight grain.

Corn for example, you only get 2 lbs of weight gain per 10 lbs of feed. 8 lbs just passes through undigested and wasted.

One thing that you and others do not factor in is that THE ONLY thing taken out of the corn when distilled are the carbohydrates, that which comes from the sun. Liquid sunshine. What is left came from the ground, full of nutritional value and much more digestible.

David Blume, author of “Alcohol Can Be A Gas” does a much better job of explaining this.

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