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From: "Tom"
Date: Friday, March 07, 2008 2:57 AM
Subject: Re: Why corn?
From: "Tom"
Date: Friday, March 07, 2008 2:57 AM
Subject: Re: Why corn?
Eeyore
>> Tom wrote:
>> 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.
>
Thanks for that.
Searching on "butanol sugar beet uk" got me
http://thefraserdomain.typepad.com/energy/2006/06/dupont_bp_to_pr.html#more
Which explained everything.
Tom
