Mustard seed can produce almost as much as twice the oil from each bushel as corn can produce in ethanol. With that, we’ve already exceeded the corn’s fuel yield and not yet distilled the first drop of ethanol from mustard hulk.
Mustard can also be “no-tilled” and straight combined so crop production and equipment requirements closely matches that of corn requiring little switchover for the producer.
Even better, abt 2/3 of the world’s mustard seed stock comes from our friends and neighbors from our north, Canada. We need to eliminate the Arab noose on America’s necks and our Canadian friends can help.
We need to quit trying to get those apples to produce orange juice.
I believe the mustard seed - just as Jesus said, “is less than all the seeds that be in the earth” - offers more promise than we’re crediting it.
Here is what I find, I don’t see you are providing an equal comparison yet.
Mustard Yields 61 gallons of oil per acre.
http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_yield.html
Corn Yields 375 gallons of ethanol per acre.
http://factsaboutethanol.org/?p=76
I don’t see efficiencies overcoming production values. Do you have different information?