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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Murphy Siding I've always wondered why ethanol and biodiesel plants don't use coal for their heat source? By nature, these plants are on a rail line,in farm country,usually away from population centers. I t seems like you could work some pretty good numbers with the railroad in question, if they were bringing in hoppers of coal and grain at the same time. [/quote] They don't use coal because it is still more of an EPA regulatory hassle to use coal instead of natural gas, and most of these LLC outfits are of the PC type - they are of the mindset of (no offense intended) domefoamer, who believe that coal is evil and using coal would defeat the whole eco-purpose of biofuels in the first place. And of course, if they start using coal to process biofuels, sooner or later some bright mind at the biodiesel plant would realize that the coal could be better utilized if it was used to make synthetic diesel, rather than trying to scrape together enough mustard or canola seed to make enough product per year to justify the investment in the first place. (And of course, what happens if there is a crop failure? Biofuels plants would have to shut down, while coal-based synthetic fuel plants would keep on chirping along. Hmmmm, which one do you think the savvy investor will take the risk on?) We have well over 200 years worth of coal in the ground people. Let's use it and save the cropland to feed an ever growing world population.
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