Corn ethanol

Corn ethanol is ethanol produced from corn as a biomass through industrial fermentation, chemical processing and distillation. It is primarily used in the United States as an alternative to gasoline and petroleum.

In the future corn ethanol may very well become a viable and energy efficient commodity. The advent and promotion of cheaper non-petroleum fertilizers and herbicides. Increased corn acreage and conservation from new techniques of farming. Farming equipment and machinery that runs on E85. Renewable sources of electricity for power and transport. The discovery of new and better enzymes for chemical processing. And new more efficient and coast effective production processes and manufacturing methods being developed with higher yields. The creation of corn ethanol would very well become a much more energy efficient and cost effective process and leave a greatly reduced environmental footprint. These technologies are under development and progressing, and could together easily increase the energy balance of corn ethanol to 500%.