alt.energy.renewable

Tom wrote:

> I may be missing something here, but why use corn for ethanol production and
> not sugar beet?
>
> Here in the UK sugar cane will not grow, but thousands of acres of sugar
> beet is grown (mostly for cattle feed)
>
> Why not use sugar beet for ethanol production?

Heer in the UK we DO use sugar beet for ethanol production. Actually, in a Du
Pont / Shell initiative it will become bio-butanol production.

Graham