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Duane Bozarth wrote:
Robert Bonomi wrote:
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Have you ever run the numbers on how much biodiesel one can produce from
an acre of farmland in a year?

Ethanol is better deal to date...

Made from corn? I have been wondering if it would not be better to
use sorghum, which grows well over much of the same range as corn,
for producing the sugar used to make ethanol.

Primarily corn, yes. Sorghum doesn't have nearly the sugar content of
corn and nowhere nor the yield/acre. Sorghum is essentially a corn
substitute where corn is not economical to grow--dryland regions or
where excessive fertilizer costs are limiting, for example.

Much production is from hybrids bred specifically for ethanol production
and more is going that way every year. I've not seen a specific
percentage recently.