Kudzu Ethanol Plant Startup in Tennesee, Cows Will Love It »
Posted By nightcrawlerX 4 months ago in StyleKudzu, a popular Southern crop in the US could save the day for ethanol production. Rather than starve our corn supplies.
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Wolfie20074 months ago
Actually, kudzu isn't a popular southern crop, most southern farmer try to get rid of it. It grows over everything and eventually kills the trees it grows on and all other vegetation. I doubt whether making ethanol out of kudzu vines will be any more efficient than any of the current methods. Ethanol is difficult to produce, it is more costly to produce than gasoline and it's difficult and dangerous to haul. Also, a lot of people I know say they are getting less mph since ethanol was added to gasoline.
The only good thing about using kudzu to make ethanol is that it isn't a food that humans eat.
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tanglang4 months ago
It's a weed. It was brought here as a joke. We were told that it was great for erosion control without being told that the sht grows 18" a day!
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chevydog4 months ago
I've always been told that kudzu was a pest weed rather than a crop. More power (no pun intended) to anyone who can make something useful from it.
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lvrofwolves4 months ago
I never even heard of Kudzu until I was moving to Alabama in 1981, and saw things like this (better pics of the stuff)
http://www.jjanthony.com/kudzu/
It was really something, making the landscape look like green plant statues, killing everything else because it chokes it off, I even saw it growing right across a highway.
Then I talked with some people, everyone down there I talked to hated this stuff, being from Japan and China, they had some rather offensive names for the kudzu.
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Charlson4 months ago
The only way Kudzu can be eradicated is to destroy their vast root system. And if there's someone willing to make ethanol out of it, I'm for it. At least, then it'll have a useful purpose.
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johnnyt4 months ago
my hometown is covered with kudzu. you cannot kill it if you cut it down to the ground it will just grow back in a few weeks. the local government would spend tons of money each year to keep it cut back to where it wouldnt cause traffic problems. if they can find a use for it i am all for it. to be honest i think i will forward this link to a friend of mine who is in the local government there. i hope this works out.
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Kudzilla3 months, 4 weeks ago
Cellulosic Ethanol using "Zero Valued Feedstocks" is the only direction the commercial ethanol industry can take and have any impact on the fuels market. You cannot make fuel from food or feed and stay in business.Corn and soy are commodities, traded on the market,additional pressures added to the demmand just drives up the cost of the fuel and the food and feed it takes to make it. The guy that said ethanol is hard to make is a nut. Fuel Grade ethanol is made exactly like you make moonshine. I know because I MAKE FUEL GRADE ETHANOL. He dosen't know because he's NEVER made ethanol and would not know what a still was if he saw one. I made my first batch of "KUDZUNOL" (ethanol from Kudzu)from a thirty gallon milk can and about three hundred dollars worth of copper pipe.It tests out at 105 octane and burns a clear blue flame (the shiner's test for good moonshine) To know more about Agro*Gas Industries or KUDZUNOL just google:(Doug Mizell kudzu)
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