The Final Exam is designed to reinforce your understanding of the lesson material. Please create a Microsoft Word document and submit your completed study questions to the instructor via email.
Congratulations! You have received $500 million to develop and install a corn ethanol biofuels plant in Nebraska. You will need to help educate the community on biofuels and specifically your plant.
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The community chair asked what is the energy differences between bio-ethanol and bio-diesel.
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The community would like to better understand why did you choose corn over sugarcane as your feedstock
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There are several members that would like to understand how using a food harvest will potentially impact food prices
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In year 1, you will bring in approximately 500,000 lbs of corn feedstock. How many gallons of ethanol will this theoretically yield (search the web for Theoretical Ethanol Yield Calculator).
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Please discuss any transportation issues that need to be considered.