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There are a huge number of potential feedstocks for ethanol production but three are of practical significance, sugarcane, corn (maize, corn-on-the-cob, iringu in Sinhala) and cellulose. If one expends 100 units of energy in making ethanol from corn, the product will give you back less than 100 or up to 135 units of energy, depending on which research paper you believe. They claim that the energy balance is just 0.59 for corn and hence corn based ethanol is a non-starter.
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