It is often said that it takes about as much fuel to plant, harvest, truck, and convert corn to ethanol as it produces. So, how can we make production more efficient? Farmers have often added value to their crops by processing it on farm, an example might be feeding corn to hogs. By feeding it adds value to the primary crop corn. Could farmers distill ethanol on the farm and improve the fuel efficiency of producing ethanol? Trucking 5000 gals of ethanol has to be more fuel efficient then trucking all that corn? Anyone ever done the math, or does the economy of scale at a larger distiller offset the savings?
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