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Originally Posted by Hersbird
Brazil has the way to do ethanol down from sugar, corn is dumb but maybe we will learn something in the process. If this global warming thing works out then maybe we can do sugar as well. If not natural gas should be given the subsidies instead of ethanol in the US.
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Brazil has some market for corn ethanol too, but it's mostly restricted to Mato Grosso state where some ethanol mills are "flex" and can alternate from sugarcane to corn and sorghum according to the season and the harvest. Actually, the ethanol is often pointed as a byproduct of the processing of corn in order to get the high-protein DDG which has been more popular as a livestock food due to the prices lower than soy-based products.
Anyway, E85 is a stupidity, back here we have used pure E96h ethanol (with about 4% water content) since the military regime.