Ethanol derived from corn.

[BMWTurboDzl]

Just a fyi. Corn used for ethanol is NOT suitable for human consumption. it's No 2 Yellow Field Corn and accounts for 99% of the total corn crop grown every year.

Sweet Corn vs Field Corn | Corn Facts | Nebraska Corn Board

Nebraska is the nation's third largest corn producer. Learn more about the types of corn our farmers grow and how it's used.

nebraskacorn.gov

 

[MrHorspwer]

Just a fyi. Corn used for ethanol is NOT suitable for human consumption. it's No 2 Yellow Field Corn and accounts for 99% of the total corn crop grown every year.

Sweet Corn vs Field Corn | Corn Facts | Nebraska Corn Board

Nebraska is the nation's third largest corn producer. Learn more about the types of corn our farmers grow and how it's used.

nebraskacorn.gov

What? Saying that Yellow No 2 (aka dent corn) isn't suitable for human consumption is like saying wheat isn't suitable for human consumption. Can you pick a stalk of wheat and make a meal with it? No, of course not. It needs to be milled into a grain first.

Yellow dent corn can't be eaten off the cob like sweet corn, but it is certainly fit for human consumption. It needs to be first milled into a grain, just like wheat.

Can you pour dent corn into your fuel tank and make car go vroom? No, it needs to be processed and distilled to make ethanol, just like it needs to be milled to make food.

Corn starch? Yellow No 2.
Corn meal? Yellow No 2.
Corn syrup? Yellow No 2.

This is all explained pretty well in the link you shared. Did you even read it? Did you expect everybody else not to?

Seriously, is this sarcasm or something? Did you forget to put a smiley in the post or something.

 

[2005jettatdi]

A grain has to be milled into a grain? Huh? Actually, corn is NOT suitable for human consumption, whether field corn or sweet corn. A little corn on the cob is great in the summer, but a steady diet of any corn is NOT healthy for humans.

 

[kschachn]

Yes most people eat plenty of corn that isn’t sweet corn.

 

[kschachn]

A grain has to be milled into a grain? Huh? Actually, corn is NOT suitable for human consumption, whether field corn or sweet corn. A little corn on the cob is great in the summer, but a steady diet of any corn is NOT healthy for humans.

Yes let’s throw pseudoscience into this discussion. That’ll help.

This is a discussion about what corn is used to produce fuel ethanol, not a treatise on someone’s personal dietary beliefs.

 

[Danno]

but a steady diet of any corn is NOT healthy for humans.

A steady diet of anything is not healthy for humans.
Also, depends on your definition of "steady"

 

[Zee09]

I'm partial to flint corn myself.

 

[kschachn]

You can actually eat field corn as sweet corn if it’s very young. It’s not the best but it can be done.

 

[FZ1]

Just a fyi. Corn used for ethanol is NOT suitable for human consumption. it's No 2 Yellow Field Corn and accounts for 99% of the total corn crop grown every year.

Sweet Corn vs Field Corn | Corn Facts | Nebraska Corn Board

Nebraska is the nation's third largest corn producer. Learn more about the types of corn our farmers grow and how it's used.

nebraskacorn.gov

Subject provokes a scary thought. Is it now more likely that 15% ethanol will be required?

 

[LenZee]

Animals feed then human consumption thru steaks.

 

[Passport1]

Using corn to make ethanol for use in gasoline is a STUPID idea;

 

[ollie]

Just a fyi. Corn used for ethanol is NOT suitable for human consumption. it's No 2 Yellow Field Corn and accounts for 99% of the total corn crop grown every year.

Sweet Corn vs Field Corn | Corn Facts | Nebraska Corn Board

Nebraska is the nation's third largest corn producer. Learn more about the types of corn our farmers grow and how it's used.

nebraskacorn.gov

Ethanol is pure grain alcohol same as Ever Clear. At the rails and ships the ATF is hovering over those loads while the poison is added to it so as making it unusable for human consumption.

 

[ollie]

Using corn to make ethanol for use in gasoline is a STUPID idea;

Oh no not this again!!

 

[benjy]

unless its ORGANIC all corn is GMO aka bio engineered todays new terminology. thru gene modification corn can SWIM in glyphosate aka roundup ready a deadly chemical that is currently under many legal issues. todays food is worse than ever + most of it is NOTHING like years ago. grains are bad period + the cause of most allergic reactions + are best limited if at all consumed according to nutritional reports NOT being paid!!! Wheat another high allergy grain was once about 4' high today its an 18" high yield crop thats worse than ever + its proteins aka amylopectin A SKYROCKETS blood sugar faster than sugar itself as noted by Dr Davis "Wheat Belly" book + contrary to beliefs whole grains are almost as bad 15 minutes after consumption!!!

 

[4WD]

Does everyone know where Corn Pop got that 6’ “lenth” of chain ?

 

[kschachn]

unless its ORGANIC all corn is GMO aka bio engineered todays new terminology. thru gene modification corn can SWIM in glyphosate aka roundup ready a deadly chemical that is currently under many legal issues. todays food is worse than ever + most of it is NOTHING like years ago. grains are bad period + the cause of most allergic reactions + are best limited if at all consumed according to nutritional reports NOT being paid!!! Wheat another high allergy grain was once about 4' high today its an 18" high yield crop thats worse than ever + its proteins aka amylopectin A SKYROCKETS blood sugar faster than sugar itself as noted by Dr Davis "Wheat Belly" book + contrary to beliefs whole grains are almost as bad 15 minutes after consumption!!!

They’ve been bioengineering corn and every other plant since the beginning of civilization.

And here I thought this was a thread about using EtOH as fuel.

 

[Owen Lucas]

unless its ORGANIC all corn is GMO aka bio engineered todays new terminology. thru gene modification corn can SWIM in glyphosate aka roundup ready a deadly chemical that is currently under many legal issues. todays food is worse than ever + most of it is NOTHING like years ago. grains are bad period + the cause of most allergic reactions + are best limited if at all consumed according to nutritional reports NOT being paid!!! Wheat another high allergy grain was once about 4' high today its an 18" high yield crop thats worse than ever + its proteins aka amylopectin A SKYROCKETS blood sugar faster than sugar itself as noted by Dr Davis "Wheat Belly" book + contrary to beliefs whole grains are almost as bad 15 minutes after consumption!!!

Good points, eating high fiber would help alleviate these spikes, but better off avoiding processed food anyway, not easy though.

 

[OVERKILL]

Using corn to make ethanol for use in gasoline is a STUPID idea;

Well, ethanol has a very low EROI (Energy Return On Invested) when compared to other sources. In some cases, it is below 1 (1 is break-even).
This chart is from a Forbes article on the subject:

Here are some for ethanol (corn derived):

Compared to gasoline:

Sugarcane ethanol can be up to 10 in comparison.

 

[Krieg]

Interesting topic!

 

[BMWTurboDzl]

What? Saying that Yellow No 2 (aka dent corn) isn't suitable for human consumption is like saying wheat isn't suitable for human consumption. Can you pick a stalk of wheat and make a meal with it? No, of course not. It needs to be milled into a grain first.

Yellow dent corn can't be eaten off the cob like sweet corn, but it is certainly fit for human consumption. It needs to be first milled into a grain, just like wheat.

Can you pour dent corn into your fuel tank and make car go vroom? No, it needs to be processed and distilled to make ethanol, just like it needs to be milled to make food.

Corn starch? Yellow No 2.
Corn meal? Yellow No 2.
Corn syrup? Yellow No 2.

This is all explained pretty well in the link you shared. Did you even read it? Did you expect everybody else not to?

Seriously, is this sarcasm or something? Did you forget to put a smiley in the post or something.

Ya I did read it. It's only consumable in processed form. It's NOT the sweet corn which people eat.