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Originally Posted by Daschicken
As for ethanol..We should grow it with sugarcane or switchgrass, not F'ing CORN. **** CORN!
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I never meant to sound totally unfavorable to sugarcane-based ethanol, but other feedstocks such as corn are actually not as bad as it's often pointed out. It's already becoming advantageous for ethanol production plants in certain Brazilian states such as Mato Grosso to process corn when sugarcane is out of season, and it's also good for customers because it ends up imposing a lower pressure to the "regulatory stocks". We might also take into account that the maltodextrin naturally available in the corn is not digested properly by grain-fed cattle, and is turned into methane that is further released straight into the atmosphere, so it makes sense to turn that maltodextrin into ethanol and feed the cattle with the leftovers.