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Don't forget to factor ethanol production in as well. In many places it is providing huge incentives for massive corn yields and production.
by mikey_p 6y ago
Don't forget to factor ethanol production in as well. In many places it is providing huge incentives for massive corn yields and production.
- JackPoach 6y agoI am 99% sure that corn ethanol is US and Brazil story. Anyway with oil prices this low, it makes no sense. The whole idea was insane from the beginning as corn ethanol has negative EROI (more energy is spent on producing a single unit of corn ethanol than you can produce by burning it.).
- pm90 6y agoIt makes more sense if you think about it as an artificial market for the excess corn produced by US farmers. You have to do something with it, might as well make HFCS and ethanol.
- falcolas 6y agoThankfully, there are other things that can be done (specifically, making food) with that same corn - it just requires a bit more processing (mechanical or chemical) to free the endosperm from the hull.
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