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Going bananas over ethanol.(alternative fuels)
There hasn't been as much excitement about alcohol in this country since Prohibition was repealed in 1933. Then, federal revenuers were busy chopping holes in stills and dynamiting vats holding hundreds of gallons of mash--a fermenting mixture of yeast and corn. Today government has a rekindled interest in alcohol, but this time it is proposing we build bigger stills and vats with thousands of gallons of mash in order to make the active ingredient in corn "likker"--ethanol.
Also known as ethyl alcohol or grain alcohol, the chemical enjoys unprecedented raves in the media, with bipartisan political support, as the potential fuel of the future. While presidential ...
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...in pipelines that pump both ethanol and oil products with foreign...problems with using pipelines for ethanol transportation in the United States. In exchange, Petrobras...multiuse pipeline that moves ethanol and other fuels linking its...
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...meeting concluded that the United States and other developed...years. Although the United States rejected tha t goal...emissions even further. The United States is responsible for a...combustion engine using ethanol from cellulosic biomass...
Source: HighBeam Research, Going bananas over ethanol.(alternative fuels)