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Farmer will earn more from windmill than from biofuels
Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute says a farmer (in the US) giving a tenth of a hectare to a turbine might earn $10,000 from it a year (3% of value of electricity it produces). Planted with maize for ethanol, he'd make just 300$ (2008 report)
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Dramatic improvements in ethanol energy efficiencies
A recent report says energy improvements being made at ethanol biorefineries across US. According to the report by John Christianson, CPA of the independent accounting firm Christianson & Associates, the average amount of energy in BTUs required to produce ethanol and livestock feed co-product across all ethanol production technologies was reduced by 13.5% between 2004 & 2007.The most efficient biorefineries had an even more dramatic reduction 19 % reduction in BTU energy requirements - Read More
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