[calphi27]

Originally Posted by 45Kevin

Don't you need a still to make ethanol? What kind of legalities do you need to go through to get a permit for a still? What about producing hazardous materials in your house?.

Stills are easy to make. They can be made cheaper than a biodiesel processor. Permit wise you would need only a permit from the ATF. From people I have talked to, it is easy to get. The dangers in production are about the same when you use methanol for biodiesel. Would you produce biodiesel in your house? I would make it outside.

Originally Posted by M John Galt

For every liter of petro energy used to produce biodiesel, 3 liters of biodiesel are produced. For every liter of petro energy used to produce ethanol in N.America they might get a liter of ethanol if everything works at it's best. Grain ethanol is a scam.

I agree that using corn for ethanol is a scam, but what about using other biomass? Also, I wanted to point out again that the leftover mash from distillation can be used as feed for livestock. Once the cellulosic technology gets here, other options that yield more energy will be available (see my 2nd post)

Originally Posted by Deny

Man we really strayed from the original question, calphi27 I think either way you go you will have problems getting the ingredients. are you planning on growing your own Canola or Corn?

I appreciate you trying to keep this on course. A friend of mine runs a feed supply shop. That is where I could get some corn.

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